Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge. Sadberry explains. "If the alumni see what they like, they give more money," and he adds that he and his mate enjoy getting to know the alums during their coffee breaks and at various receptions. "We get a chance to dine with some people," says Sadberry with a smile...
...close friend calls him "calmly committed" but in strategy sessions and ideological discussions, he earns characterizions from some associates of "hardheaded", "arrogant", and "abrasive". Others suggest he is modest--more interested in promoting his ideas than plugging himself. A facile speaker, Molyneux may smile in conversation, but to make his point forsakes bubbly enthusiasm for the steady gaze and the hard sell...
Although he has written lyrics before (most successfully, he says, in the show he wrote last year, "Leaders of Tomorrow"), Schubert knows that his strengths lie in musical areas rather than literary ones. "I'm a cocky kind of guy," he says with a smile. "I tend to think my ideas are better than anyone else's. But I know I'm not a lyricist." Unfortunately, he notes, the ideal partner/lyricist has eluded him at Harvard...
...moral responsibility: "You received the merchandise you wanted, but my client has not been paid ..." Golditch calls these opening gambits a means of "captivating" the debtor. "After that, I'm sure you'd talk with me," he says, leaning back in his chair with a satisfied smile. "I can convince anyone I want to help them...
...himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club Med drinking beads and a sun-dazed, dreamy smile...