Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice, the wife of a standard-model civil servant and the mother of a conventional child. Although she has "views"-she disbelieves vaguely in the color bar-she is accepted placidly by colonial suburbia. Then she discovers that she feels as if she were going mad. Older wives smile kindly and say, Yes, that's right, everyone feels that...
...looks Ivy, he sounds Ivy, but when he picks up a newspaper and reads 'HEAT WAVE IN CALIFORNIA--TEMPERATURE HITS 110,' he turns to an aide and says with a smile, 'Good...
...while." > "Love thy neighbor as thyself; do unto others as you would have them do unto you. No matter how long it may take, no matter how difficult it is, this above all else is the great horizon toward which we march united." >"Let's keep a smile on our face, let's keep faith in our heart, let's keep hope in our vision, let's move on to conquer unknown frontiers." > "I have traveled around the world and I have been in many countries and I have seen the glories of art and architecture...
...observed, this did not happen.) In a typical interchange there, he approached a table of women and said, "I'm Ed Brooke. Sorry to disturb your lunch, but I just wanted to say hello." As he left the table, one woman turned to another and signed, "Such a nice smile. I think I'll voter for him." Later, when a woman reprimanded that he had already shaken her hand (this is uncommon for his astute "campaign memory") he retorted that he "just wanted to come back for seconds...
Though Keating lacks electricity, he does possess a certain warmth that wins respect. He almost always wears a huge smile. But not infrequently, he stops to listen to a complaint or a request; then, with his hand clasping his petitioner's, the smile leaves his face and he listens intently. When the quick tete-a-tete is finished, he moves on and his face lights up once again...