Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he too bought the shares in question, but had ended up with a $98 loss. The Liberals offered an expensive but vote-catching program: provincially sponsored hospital insurance, free college education for the talented, increased old-age pensions. And they had at last found a leader with a flair for organization and a gift...
...With his flair for capturing mood and action on paper, Beach kept an expansive log at sea that recorded everything from depth soundings to "babygrams"-eight Stateside messages informing sailors that their wives had given birth...
...European tradition of Fritz Reiner or Bruno Walter, a pingpong postlude to a concerto would seem outrageous. Katims is a different breed of conductor who, like Lenny Bernstein, combines a showman's flair with an artist's discipline and knows that, despite the enormously increased U.S. appetite for culture, good programs must still be promoted. Says he: "No American conductor can expect simply to wrap himself in an opera cloak and make music...
...Philip Berkin, 53, the oil coordinator; Harold ("Tim") Wilkinson. 57, in charge of North America. Far East, Australasia and United Kingdom-Eire; and Frederick Stephens, 56, legal matters and the Middle East, who takes over the chairmanship when Loudon is absent. Shellmen agree that their Britons incline more to flair and intuition, their Dutchmen to patience and stolidity. Loudon presides over the mix. If he favors a project, it is likely to go through; if he frowns on it, its chances are poor. Says he: "There is always plenty of give and take, but somebody always gives...
...earlier books, from A Lamp on the Plains to his two-volume Great River: the Rio Grande, Author Horgan, 56, has shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version...