Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare & Shelters. To the White House also came the eighth visiting head of state this year. He was General Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, who took control of the Sudan-Africa's largest nation-in a bloodless 1958 coup. Abboud, Moslem-born -and English-trained, is a genial man and an avid gardener, who leads his nation on a careful path between East and West. He visited Moscow last summer, attended the recent neutralist conclave in Belgrade. "You have set an example of a country with eight neighbors, all of whom live at peace with you and with each other," said...
...genial grafter, long a strategic, if not an integral part of Massachusetts politics, has come in for an unprecedented amount of New England fire in recent months. Recent Boston newspaper headlines have fully advertised the frequency of corruption in high (and low) places. Even as Rudolph G. Bessette, director of the state Waterways Division, stood trial this week for alleged "sweetheart deals," scandals in two areas came to light. Yesterday the Boston Finance Commission began investigation of charges that there were rigged bids in a proposed $400,000 purchase of new fire engines. At the same time, the BFC also...
...political ethics. McCormack felt that a code of ethics, such as the one presently under consideration by a special state committee, might be more to the point. If political evil were clearly and legally defined, McCormack predicted, there surely would be less corruption. Graft could no longer be genial...
...luncheon-table jollity was typical of the successive Gromyko-Rusk meetings so far, described by one participant as "perfectly genial, perfectly agreeable." Behind the geniality, of course, was the deadly serious purpose of finding out whether a Berlin compromise is possible. The seriousness was acknowledged by Gromyko. who has developed into an inveterate knee-tapper, prodding his own and his opponents' knees with a blunt finger for emphasis; although Gromyko speaks English reasonably well, he insisted on conducting the Rusk negotiations in Russian through an interpreter to make sure that no word was lost or misunderstood. And indeed much...
...Here he was stopped by Judge Goldberg an old man tart towards lawyers, genial towards witnesses, and given to aphorisms like: "One should have an opinion without thinking about it." The Judge wanted to know did purity mean simply faithfulness of literary reproduction? Or did religion mean simply spontaneity? Discussion followed, but the questions are still very much unanswered, in this trial, at least...