Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate also has the golden knack of making a five or six second conversation seem like a five or six minute heartwarming chat. His watchful eye and instant charm combine to woo that special type of person who might actually be swayed by the flattery of special attention. He will pass up a stream of people gushing from a crowded bus and go twenty or thirty feet away to shake hands and have a few words with some lonely figure watching him shyly from afar...
...devotees the world over from Presidents (including John F. Kennedy) and princes to postmen and plumbers. All were effortlessly drawn into a magic country of tension and torture, peopled by pliant, pneumatic blondes, sturdy, self-sacrificing friends, and hordes of mean-eyed villains possessing every evil gift except the knack of shooting straight when firing at James Bond...
...humor falls flat because the actors are trying too hard. Half of them be have as though they are in an elocution match. They are like men trying to crack a bull whip who have not yet got the knack of it. They all seem to believe that if they just say their lines crisply enough, or forcefully enough, they will get a laugh...
...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all but bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and at times almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
...writer and fulltime polemicist. He has been flailing away at his chosen targets-war, racial prejudice, big government-for something close to a quarter of a century. The secret of the art, he understands, is to avoid the complicating thought and the qualifying phrase; indeed, few writers have his knack for reducing problems of considerable complexity to aboriginal simplicity...