Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those resolute fish in humankind who dare to swim against the tide...
Lamont considered himself a gadfly; his friends at Harvard agree that he had a marvellous ability to ask needling questions. But they invariably add that he was always genial and good-natured and that his probing resulted in fresh insights and understanding, not antagonism...
...many respects, Edmund "Pat" Brown fits the comic strip caricature of a politician. Heavy-set and florid, he talks in superlatives and looks at ease on a campaign platform. Genial most of the time, he blusters and pounds his fist if someone maligns Lyndon Johnson or another Democrat. He knows California as few other people do: probably no one else could be so effusive about the redwoods or the Los Angeles freeway system; probably no one else can name the tiny settlements that dot Highway 395 as it climbs from Barstow to Bishop...
Ridiculous Details. The team is led by a former Governor of Florida, genial Farris Bryant, 52, who is the director of the Office of Emergency Planning but serves also as Johnson's chief engineer and evangelist of creative federalism. Last week federal men boarded one of the President's Boeing 707 jetliners, touched down in Washington State and Alaska to meet firsthand with their state counterparts. So far, the task force of better than a score of federal officials has visited 19 states. The problems they have encountered have been as diverse as America itself...
...favorite horse, chat with attractive women and tell amusing stories on himself. Last week, as the two men marched up the aisle of Brasilia's Chamber of Deputies building for the swearing-in, a grim Castello Branco looked straight ahead; Costa, relaxed and enjoying himself, threw genial glances to friends and relatives. After the oath of office, Castello Branco stiffly shook hands with Costa's wife, lolanda; Costa, by contrast, warmly kissed the hand of his predecessor's daughter, then those of Castello's two granddaughters...