Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, Gilman is faced with the dilemma of the Republican Party. Dow has already declared his candidacy again and stands a good chance of getting the Democratic nomination. In a normal election year, Gilman could hardly want more--his genial personality, close affinity with the voters, and cautious politics would insure him an easy victory in November...
...finally negotiated a truce halfway through the ten-day honeymoon. In exchange for a press conference, the newsmen agreed to leave the couple alone. Summoning the press to the house of Mexican Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa, Kissinger, dressed in a white guayabera (a casual Mexican shirt), was his usual genial self. Nancy, peering from behind oversized sunglasses, was tense, and she did not find the barrage of personal questions reassuring. "How many children will you have?" demanded a reporter. Nancy, who is, according to friends, "crazy about children," replied warily, "I don't know. However many come...
Huntley's rather glacial TV presence was a mark of his professionalism, not his personality. A large, genial man, he possessed an openness that seemed out of place in Manhattan's canyons. His second wife Tipton, a former TV weathercaster, shared his love of travel and the unspoiled wilderness. He had two daughters by his first marriage, which ended in divorce...
Shapiro does his best to impugn Berryman's performance. But even Shapiro's article includes such descriptions by students of Berryman as "a genial, compassionate man with an interest in students" and "effective, accessible to students and a hard worker." The charge that Shapiro musters against Berryman--the sole specific charge--is that he "knew 'next to nothing' about the regulations pertaining to Independent Work projects as late as November." If that constitutes a Crimson expose...
...drawing by Rembrandt to a Deruta pot or a Motherwell collage. There is practically no work of art immune to it, and its effects on the perception of art have been, in general, disastrous. The problem is not simply that art costs money; it always has. Peter Wilson, the genial and astute entrepreneur whose direction of the auction house of Sotheby's has done so much to create the modern investment fetishism, likes to point out that the prices paid in their day for the works of Victorian painters like Alma-Tadema (when multiplied by 30 to bring them...