Word: genial
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...make it out, Mr. Ooze revolves around a great, gaping artistic lug of a hero, one Wilson Stone, revered by his friends as "a fantastic guy: he's kind of screwed up." Wilson's friends number his roommate Mike, a genial caricature of an earnest economics major, who says of his future employers "It's not every day a bank gets a chance to have a summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh...
...sentimental Capitol Hill ceremony mustering many of the Congressional colleagues who voted to end his 20-year Republican House leadership in 1959, a bust of Massachusetts' genial Representative Joseph Martin, 77, this week was unveiled in the "Hall of Fame" rotunda of the Old House Office Building. Sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, artist sister of ex-Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Baron Robert Silvercruys. the bust, commissioned by women's Republican clubs, will take its place alongside eight other hallowed Congressional heads al ready in the hall...
People, Not Courses. Genial, chunky Abe Sachar, 63, found his ailment matched by Jews across the country. Brandeis was too new to have alumni, but generous gifts flowed in from "foster alumni." They ranged from Crooner Eddie Fisher, who set up two music scholarships, to Broadway Producer David Merrick, who gave Brandeis a slice of Gypsy. Today Brandeis is a $24 million complex of more than 50 handsome buildings, including a 750,000-volume library and three ultramodern chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...silver bookmark and a stone from Lake Tiberius in the Holy Land. L'Osservatore Romano pronounced the Vatican "grateful" for the visit; the Vatican added-lest anyone forget-that the visit had been merely a "courtesy call." The visit leaves relations among all the churches of Christianity more genial than at any time since Luther. But within the Kirk there are hard feelings. The honorary treasurer of the Kirk of St. Andrews resigned his post in protest. When Dr. Craig turned up at St. Andrews to preach the centenary service, he felt it necessary to soothe the fundamentalists...
...Latin America troubleshooter, Richard Goodwin, 30. who wrote last year's presidential Alianza speech, but otherwise had no previous familiarity with Latin America, to be trail boss for the New Frontiersmen in speeding the program. Last week the President fired Goodwin's nominal boss. Robert Woodward, a genial career diplomat who was just too slow for Kennedy. In his place as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the President named a career bureaucrat. Edwin M. Martin, 53. who has a grounding in economics...