Word: naturedness
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DO NEW YORKERS STILL COMPLAIN TO YOU ABOUT THE SMOKING BAN? No, that's an issue long gone. When you parade by a bar, they wave the cigarette at you in a good-natured way. I think most people understand that smoking is not good for you. You can smoke...
The Olympians Members of all the countries' Olympic teams tried very hard to concentrate on the Games [Aug. 16], and with journalists, coaches and p.r. machines working in overdrive, the athletes had a lot to contend with. I'm glad they were able to focus on doing their best. Kudos...
Only James Watson could turn the eulogy of a friend into an excuse to denigrate religion [Aug. 9]. Francis Crick's "good-natured arrogance," as Watson called it, is nothing compared with Watson's opulent truculence. Watson referred to Crick's longtime hostility to religious revelation and said his colleague...
Joe Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She...
The death of FRANCIS CRICK deprives the world of a remarkable scientist and conversationalist whose forceful voice and overpowering laugh made him the focal point of any room that he chose to occupy. From the morning of Feb. 28, 1953, when he and I discovered the double-helical structure of...