Word: owlish
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...owlish little man minces few words. To Isidor Feinstein Stone, Richard Nixon is a "banal and shallow man," and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird "Washington's biggest liar since John Foster Dulles." As for John Mitchell: "Nothing is more dangerous than weak men who think they are tough guys...
...bachelor popularity of owlish Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's one-man think tank, has earned him the White House sobriquet "playboy of the western wing." Last week his reputation was appraised by pretty blonde Washington Hostess Barbara Howar. Said she on-camera to TV's Mike Wallace: "Mike, it takes time to be a swinger, you know. Henry doesn't have that kind of time. If he's taking you out to dinner, don't start to get dressed until the third time he's called...
Last week, to take command, Arthur Goldberg came over the horizon blowing a trumpet muted with the first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After...
There they met Dr. William Howell Masters, the director, an owlish, stern-looking man of 54, and Mrs. Virginia Johnson, 45, his research associate, whose manner is as outgoing as Masters' is reserved. The Millers were told that this first interview, and all others, would be taped?a measure designed to protect the patients by eliminating stenographers from the necessary history-taking. They were reminded of the foundation's credo as worded by Masters: "There is no such thing as an uninvolved partner in a sexually distressed marriage." Indeed, had the Millers not entered treatment together, they could not have...
...Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview show trail with a questing curiosity, melodious baritone voice, quiet manner, and a mind like spun glass-intricate but clear. Plus, of course, thick-rimmed glasses that gave a whole generation of imitators that owlish look. After 1961, when he felt compelled to quit because of his wife's death, he became just a memory. Yet even today, when a videophile hears a few bars of Sentimental Journey, Garroway's theme, the response can only be the Garroway greeting ("Hello, Old Tiger") or farewell...