Word: joviality
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Part of the problem rests with De Gaulle's choice of Premiers. Shortly after the election landslide, De Gaulle summarily replaced his longtime Premier, Georges Pompidou, whose air of solidity and jovial good sense appealed to French voters. His replacement, former Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, was highly effective at mystifying and icily putting down foreign diplomats. He is far less effective at reassuring French voters. Couve is, in fact, what one of his rivals calls "too Anglo-Saxon." In other words, the Premier, who is a member of France's Protestant minority, is too austere, cool...
...subscribed to the "General Principles," including one that read, "The ends justify the means." The agency was the self-expression of a man who got up at 4:30 a.m., was in bed by 8:30 p.m., and whose idea of an acting disguise (for himself) was as a "jovial, friendly" social drinker. "I must get my way in all things," he once confessed firmly, showing a taste for the fanatic in himself and others (symptomatically, he regarded Abolitionist John Brown as "greater than Napoleon and just as great as George Washington"). Trying his hand as an espionage agent...
Retired though he is, Old Trouper Maurice Chevalier still loves to strike a pose now and again, in this case sitting like some jovial potentate flanked by a pair of pet cheetahs at the Count de La Panouse's chateau outside Paris...
Many Democrats have already written off Humphrey as a possible contender on two counts: both as a loser and be cause of age-he will be 61 in 1972. But Hubert, tanned, jovial and buoyant as ever, seems almost eager to face another presidential test. Last week his wife Muriel told an anecdote that does much to explain the insatiable fascination the presidency holds for men who have once made the race. At a recent White House reception for the Prime Minister of Iran, says Muriel, "Hubert held my hand as we came down the great stairs from the President...
...bond salesmen into twelve species. They include Legatus Caelestis, or Messenger from Mount Olympus, who "brings you eternal verities from on high (his firm's research department) "; Garrulus Defatigare, or Sophisticate, who bears "a bored air of nonchalance and yards of bond gossip"; and Hospes Hospitalis, or Jovial Host, who "will be anxious to have you share his innocent amusements. Handle this one with unusual caution...