Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replies with refreshingly characteristic frankness: "I suppose my primary interest in crime is the sublimation of aggression; to vicariously participate in violence without feeling guilt. Also, of course, the outlaw has as much attractiveness to me as to the rest of American culture." He adds with his engaging smile, "I liked aggressive sports when I was at Stanford: I played soccer, football and coached boxing...
...rainy afternoon skies hovered in leaden gloom above the modernistic A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters building on Washington's 16th Street. James Riddle Hoffa, president-elect of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, scissored briskly up to the front entrance. A photographer asked him for just "one cheerful smile." Snapped Jimmy Hoffa cheerlessly: "Don't worry, kid. There'll be lots of them. Nothing has happened...
...main difficulty is probably that the master builder is fifty years old, and Robert Jordan, who plays him with undeniable skill and versatile force, happens to have an extremely youthful face. This means, for example, that he can never smile fully; he frowns and glares and looks gloomy even more constantly than his part requires. His posture, his vigorous strides, and even some of his highly dramatic gestures also remind us too often that this master builder is a member of the very younger generation against which Ibsen's master builder carries on the fight that is the heart...
...sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave many readers the intriguing sensation of observing precocious children playing grown-up games. In Those Without Shadows, the kids are a little older and they are no longer saying bonjour to sadness; in the words of a current U.S. pop tune, they are shouting "Hello...
...fill the time available for its completion" and there will be orgies of reports, conferences and initialing of each other's papers. After a strenuous day of memo-passing, A will still miss the commuter's special, but he will reflect with "a wry smile that late hours, like gray hairs, are among the penalties of success...