Word: geniality
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...socialist countries." Cuban authorities went out of their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour of Havana I stopped for a beer at an open-air café, and two carpenters insisted on treating me. When I asked a housewife buying her husband's weekly ration of two cigars how much it cost, she offered...
...note from the elder Hartmann, a patent attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif., and former chemist who once directed research for the Carborundum Co. Even Wife Roberta concedes that Hartmann "does not have time to be as tactful as some people would wish." But he can also be garrulous and genial, particularly while reminiscing with old friends from his days as a reporter...
...first major speech. "Let's get on with it." So saying, he set off on a week of action perhaps unmatched in the White House since the most frenetic days of Lyndon Johnson. Though any new Administration is necessarily active, the casual Ford made it all seem unhurried, genial...
This voyage began with the booming approval of NATO's Secretary General Joseph Luns. The handshake of this genial giant following the signing of the declaration on Atlantic relations rippled all the way up the President's arm and into his chest like a shot of Adrenalin. When Nixon walked from his residence to King Baudouin's for lunch he spied the guards that so impressed him on his last visit that he had special uniforms made for the White House police. There was so much American laughter that Nixon abandoned the scheme. But there must have...
...still times when he sounds like the dumb cop on the deadend Chinatown beat. All this is fine, but it is all there is. Chandler made Philip Marlowe into a paladin. For Polanski and Towne, Gittis is simply a protagonist who has nothing at stake, a kind of genial guide through all the thickets of plot...