Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOIRE VALLEY. An abundant crop of high-quality wine has been in the vats for a month. Muscadet, the dry, fruity white, and the slightly sweet Rose D'Anjou, which are best drunk young, will remain some of the best bargains anywhere at around $3. The reds, such as Chinon, Bourgeuil and Saumur-Cham-pigny. show every sign of excellence. The whites, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre and Vouvray, were also exceptional. Loire Valley wines will go up 10% and be drinkable within a year...
...perfect method actor. He tries to make a personal contact with each of them through objects--commenting on their faces, their fingernails, anything to make them relate to him personally. Instead, they barrage him with the same stupid questions and cliches. He takes the offensive against the sweet vacuous interviewer from Chicago--"Jeezus, I'm going to have to look you up when I go to Chicago...
...belief in "business-type supervision of the business operations of courts" and a native sense of how to push without shoving, Heflin has transformed Alabama's antique judiciary into one of the most modern and efficient in the U.S. He no sooner had his Dictaphone than he began sweet-talking the legislature and the electorate into reforming the state's briar patch of conflicting court jurisdictions and ludicrous rules. It was a five-year campaign, but he won it. Next January Alabama will get a single statewide court structure with common procedural rules. A workable system for disciplining...
...Ackerly: "Oh, we all love to see Gone With the Wind, and how Scarlett flits around with nothing to worry about except how small her waist is. But when it came time, Scarlett wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty. The Southern woman may seem soft and sweet, but she can do almost anything." Irma Lee Shepherd, a psychologist and professor at Georgia State University, agrees. Says she: "Girls who might whisper, simper and have the vapors at a dance often were very strong women who knew Latin and Greek and had developed strong wills from their fathers...
Hollywood movies of the '30s and '40s left no doubt about the Southern woman: she was a Jezebel. In fact, the traditional problem is not rebellion but "niceness," or what Journalist Florence King calls "the compulsive need to be sweet." A Southern woman is obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native...