Word: stylistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference reminds one of a politician delivering his "set speech," and of one politician in particular, Billy Graham and Barry Goldwater have more in common than the initials they use. They both combine passionate beliefs with personal flair; neither is an original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
Great & Strong. But before a reader lays down his $12.50 and places My Life & Loves beside Fanny Hill on his bedside shelf, he should be warned that as a stylist, Harris is no match for Cleland. Along about the seventh seduction it becomes apparent that all of Harris' women are the same-defeated enemies who surrender to his massive virility. "Oh, you great, strong dear!" cries his first conquest-and so, for 87 chapters, cry all the others (about 100, by rough count). For the discriminating reader, there is one way of telling them apart: as Harris got older...
Home was an apartment in Hassan's Bahia Palace, furnished in white leather and looking out over vast palm groves toward the Atlas Mountains. There a French hair stylist called frequently, did Jackie's hair in a fetching "Parisian nymph" style. Then, reclining on deep-cushioned divans, she would dine with princes of the royal court at low Moroccan tables while Andalusian music trilled a background...
Married. June Allyson, 40, cinemactress (The Glenn Miller Story), widow of Actor Dick Powell: and Glenn Maxwell, 31, men's hair stylist to Hollywood's elite; in Fort Lauderdale...
There are dozens more. Boston College's Jack Concannon has size (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) and stamina, delights in the long scoring strike that breaks up ball games. The pros especially like Maryland's Dick Shiner ("a stylist") and Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...