Word: personable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison, the later Picassos enter the more vulnerable realm of the first person singular and juggle an ingenuity, a coquetry, a sense of invention, which may triumph but which, on the other hand, may adulterate the goal. Picasso is a conspicuous example of one who has used personal invention to the most effective degree, witness a Guernica or a Weeping Woman. On the other hand, fatalities exist too. The ingenuities of the twenties no longer spread as far as they once did. The first days of true retrospective judgment on that era are just commencing...
...Person. Tall (almost 5 ft. 10 in.) for a Chinese, thin, with greying hair and the pallid look of an anchorite, Liu is a Communist ideologue whom strangers in a roomful of people are apt to overlook. But Liu's voice is hard, his hand is heavy, his mind dogmatic and forceful. To Liu, the ideal Communist "bears the sorrows of the world now for the sake of later happiness; he toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten...
...that the managers are not the men who pick their successors. Their recommendations are considered as one of many criteria by the Director of Student Employment, who is the person who makes the final appointment. Again you are welcome to our files to find out that the influence of the past managers is but one of many factors taken into account...
...clusters of six or eight men congealed around a leader. But these clusters do not freeze into antagonistic cliques, Captain Alvis reported, because endless recombinations occur in a modern sub's big crew of 80 or more men. "It takes quite a while for even a rather unpleasant person to inflict himself on everyone in the group." And a bad apple can always be set off on the next pier...
Painters & Probers. By art, Barzun seems to mean a cult of the sensibility; by science, a mystical cult of facts; and by philanthropy, he means a kind of goofy general doctrine of charity that holds that no idea or person can be dismissed just because the idea is absurd or the person incompetent...