Word: geniality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sweet Talk. A genial, sometimes bumbling Georgia millionaire whose family fortune (mainly from textiles) is estimated at $40 million, Callaway is the focus of investigations by the FBI, a Senate Interior subcommittee and the Civil Aeronautics Board. The primary accusation was that on his final day as Army Secretary last July, he persuaded officials of the Agriculture Department to review a ruling by its subsidiary, the U.S. Forest Service. The original ruling had barred Crested Butte's promoters from leasing 2,000 acres of federal land on which to build new ski runs, which would have tripled the size...
...four--Max Eastman, Will Herberg, John Dos Passos, and James Burnham--differ in almost every way except the direction of their intellectual development. Eastman, a genial, flamboyant libertine, translated Marx's Capital into English, as he did many of the works of Trotsky, his intellectual mentor. He edited two communist journals, The Masses and The Liberator, and became a learned exegete of Hegel. Herberg, a lower-class Jew whose parents emigrated from Russia, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, by which time he had gained a reputation in radical circles as a complex and formidable thinker...
Ethnic Vote. In style, the two candidates could hardly be more different. A portly, genial, old-fashioned pol from Chicago, Howlett last year backslapped his way through 260 functions around the state; he is running at an even brisker pace this year. Though Walker is moving even faster, he is deceptively low-keyed at factory gates and bowling alleys: "Need your vote. Don't forget." He is working hard to slice off some of Chicago's ethnic vote, which is usually safe for Daley's candidate. Walker charges that no member of the Polish community has been...
...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
Carter kept genial control over Prosecutor Browning and Defender Bailey as they began their long-awaited duel. Browning, 43, had not tried a case in more than five years, preferring, as an administrator, to leave the courtroom work to his assistants. He professed to be unimpressed by the fact that he was facing one of the most famous and flamboyant criminal lawyers. "I've been up against good lawyers before," he said, "but unless you have the facts on your side, it doesn't mean much...