Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills store. "I was talking about running for Congress by the time I was ten," Mills recently recalled. Oldfield was a member of Ways and Means?so young Mills decided that...
Dwight Macdonald is a genial tilter at windmills, and in his time he has bowled over more than his share. If occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains...
Before taking the thankless job of running Britain's rattling railways, genial but tough Richard Beeching raised a public storm last year by insisting that the government match the salary that he got as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries: $67,000. That was 2½ times what his predecessor got and much higher than the Prime Minister's pay ($28,000), but Beeching's principles opposed a comedown. Beeching, now 49, may be worth much more than that to the railways, which ran a crashing $252 million in the red last year...
...geared to produce more than it consumes and when nothing would help the economy more than a surge in consumer spending. As the U.S. economy grows in size and complexity and the cost of labor increases, advertising is an indispensable substitute for the personal salesmanship of times past. The genial clerk who used to sell undecided customers with the assurance that "my own family uses it" is steadily giving way to the self-service shopping cart. Today, advertising is the magnet that draws customers into the nation's supermarkets and department stores, and the prime mover of human inventiveness...
Jonathan Miller is probably the most genial of the four. He has devised two monologues--one about lost trousers on the British Railways, and one about the kind of people who buy porno books in furtive shops (books, says Miller, like A History of Flogging in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force)--which he illustrates by cavorting around the stage in all manner of curious attitudes, wildly illustrating, with suitable gestures, various aspects of his curiouser narratives. Miller also gives, in another bit, what is probably the best line in the show: "I'm not really...