Word: introverted
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...influence slowly moved the U.S. toward military realism, yet he had few personal victories to record. He could never bring himself to break security and either boast or speak out against his critics, but the criticism cut him deep. "Public service," he once observed, "is no place for an introvert...
There aren't any formal standards that help the Admissions Office spot the "well equipped" man. Since the idea business man is no introvert, the school is definitely not hunting just for grinds with good marks. (The chief college grad area represented in the Class of 1952 is "B minus.") Instead the school pains takingly studies a man's entire past performance, and, with four applicants for every available place, the Admissions Office has a wide selection to pick from...
Soriano travels about 100,000 miles a year, has big, comfortable homes in Manila, Madrid, Southern France and Manhattan. In his world-girdling trips, he keeps a sharp eye open for new businesses. Says Soriano: "I'm neither an introvert, a handshaker nor a patter on the back. If there's anything I enjoy doing, it's planning big industries. I get a kick...
...accenting the devoted loyalty of the golfer and his wife, partly in the casting of likable Actor Ford, who, with Hogan's coaching, also gives a good imitation of the master's golfing technique. But Follow the Sun humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist on the links. This view of Hogan, which seems somewhat romanticized, pays off with an extra dividend of surefire appeal: the golfer's realization, as messages of sympathy...
...Little, Brown; $3) comes from the medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby and Williams...