Word: geniality
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...format is pure TV talk show; the content is not. In one episode the genial, loose-jointed M.C. welcomes a California real estate salesman named Frank Foglio, who tells a modern version of the loaves-and-fishes miracle: his mother, with 18 mouths to feed one night, prayed over a quarter-pound of spaghetti. God multiplied it so generously that there were even leftovers...
...travels in the U.S. heartland to build up public support for himself and the Ford Administration's foreign policy. In Atlanta, Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society, made him an honorary member and presented him with an old-fashioned editor's green eyeshade. The President held a genial news conference on the White House lawn, having harsh words only for the oil-exporting nations, who are contemplating another price increase this fall. Such an act would be "totally unacceptable," said Gerald Ford, but he did not say what the U.S. could do about it. Much of his week...
...Pursuit. Roselli told the Senators how he had taken part in four or five separate attempts to kill Castro in the early '60s, usually by poisoning, confirming the accounts previously reported by TIME and other publications. The testimony of the Mafia's genial old soldier dovetailed with other information gathered by the committee and strengthened the view that at least in the case of Castro, the CIA had tried to instigate what Senator Church bluntly calls murder...
...Levine, 31, cannot do, except perhaps play Scott Joplin on the tuba. The remarkable new music director of the Metropolitan Opera already has several superlative operatic recordings to his credit (notably / Vespri Siciliani on RCA and Joan of Arc on Angel). This version of Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does under its regular leader, Sir Georg Sold, but it plays every...
...genial Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton has been moved to Commerce. The Republican conservative nominated to replace him is Wyoming's former Governor Stanley K. Hathaway, who allowed, among other things, blanket slaughter of golden eagles erroneously believed to be major predators of livestock...