Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly, does Candidate Reagan's personal appeal. Hollywood-handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance (he is 55), Reagan has also maintained a nice-guy, down-to-earth presence while perfecting a smooth platform style throughout a durable career as radio announcer, movie actor, lecturer and television performer (most recently as M.C. of Death Valley Days). In switching from show business to politics, Reagan undoubtedly also benefits from the precedent set by Fellow Republican, Fellow Actor George Murphy, who has settled soberly into the U.S. Senate seat from California that...
There is no "political boss" in Cambridge, and the City's politics resembles a sputtering engine more than a smooth-operating machine. Each politician creates his own core of supporters, and each takes care of his own obligations. As a result, Cambridge politics is personalized politics, which exists on man-to-man contact and the trading of favors...
...Harvard Administration feels more secure with the information Whitlock gathers and the friends he has made. In Whitlock they feel they have someone who can mollify the politicians and help smooth over differences; moreover--and just as important--they feel they have an "expert," someone who can offer them more than guess-work about different events in the City...
...variety of textured paving. Kids are going to climb all over the sculpture anyway; they made sure that it came with built-in handholds to make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
...sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest...