Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good family, a veteran of the Korean War and a securities salesman with a nice knack for calling the turns in his trade. His surface trouble is that life seems like a chronic sickness, his fear is of defeat by "everydayness." Life around him seems fat. genial, kindly-and stupid. "Men are dead, dead, dead; and the malaise has settled like a fallout and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall . . ." Comfortable, well-heeled Binx habitually sleeps with his secretaries and finds that the movies are a deeper reality...
...stage of London's Royal Festival Hall, father and son appeared in sharp contrast. Playing a reddish Stradivarius, David was short, pudgy and genial; playing a yellowing Guarnerius, Igor was tall, sleek and reserved. For the most part, the carefully selected program of Bach chamber music served to contrast them even more clearly, identify each as a commanding solo artist. Although critics agreed that Igor still has a long way to go before he can challenge his father's mastery, the younger man's forceful, exuberant interpretation of the Concerto for Violin in E neatly counterbalanced David...
Playing the genial host, the U.S. Senate last week laid out a huge welcome mat for foreign tourists anxious to visit the U.S. Passed by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives for almost certain approval was a bill establishing a United States Travel Service, whose function will be to persuade more foreigners to visit the U.S. Provided with an initial budget of $5,000,000, the national tourist office will open branch offices abroad, work with private business to simplify tour arrangements and hotel accommodations, entice potential visitors with a "Tour the U.S.A." program...
...chances are that whenever University-oriented city planners, the Cambridge Advisory Council, or the Cambridge Historical Council rise up against any urban redevelopment, a genial but shrewd character will be at the bottom of it all. Synonymous with the idea of buildings on stilts, with plans for a $100 million project to fill in the Charles River Basin, and with what his enemies might term radical change in general is the name of John Briston Sullivan...
...casualty in the U.S. policy switch on Nasser's Aswan Dam project), is expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among State people is genial Roger Tubby, 50, who was a press officer there from 1945-49, later became Harry Truman's press secretary, and worked hard for Kennedy in the campaign...