Word: owlish
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...writer by William Shawn, then The New Yorker's managing editor. A few years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing a book or play. Thereafter, diffident and a bit owlish, the critic plied the provinces with nearly every would-be President from Thomas Dewey to Jimmy Carter. Rovere also found time to write eight nonfiction books and countless shorter works, most notably a straight-faced 1961 article for American Scholar on the existence of an "American Establishment," a spoof so successful...
When the San Francisco Giants play in windy Candlestick Park, a man with owlish spectacles, tight lips, an aquiline nose and a stern gaze usually sits in a front-row seat, 70 ft. from home plate. Arthur Rock, 57, has been a Giants fan for 25 years, watching batters try to sort curve balls from sliders and change-ups from screwballs. Since the late 1950s. Rock has been carefully scrutinizing pitches of another kind-start-up bids by young technology companies-and when he goes for one of these, he rarely misses. Says San Francisco Venture Capitalist Thomas Perkins: "Arthur...
DIED. Terence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Archbishop of New York; of acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. The genial, owlish New York native succeeded his mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death...
...tall (6 ft. 1 in.) but not lean, heavy (193 Ibs.) but not flabby, except for some droop below the chin. A sparse crop of fine gray hair sweeps back from his forehead, and the rest is snipped short. His black-rimmed glasses give him a slightly spooked, owlish demeanor. Helms walks with a relaxed spring, his bearing loose and eager if not quite vigorous. His appearance is scrupulously uneccentric, clean and blue-suit respectable, more like a civic-minded small-town bank president than a U.S. Senator...
...strikers, as stubborn and high-spirited a bunch as ever hit the bricks, did not, of course, concede defeat. Despite the overwhelming Government pressure, they continued to picket airports from LGA (La Guardia) to LAX (Los Angeles International), rallying behind their bearded, owlish-looking president Robert E. Poli in an unusual show of solidarity. Poli, 44, a former controller himself, called the Administration's actions "the most blatant form of union-busting I have ever seen." Vowed he: "It will not end the strike...