Word: warmth
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...have the chance to look over my article again, I hope you will find that I too was impressed with Dr. King's warmth, humility, sincerity. That he has enormous style, a style that we can immediately react to, may sometimes obscure, but never deny, the higher qualities you observe...
Every university, but especially a big-city one encysted in slums like Columbia or Chicago, has its strays: the ex-students, would-be writers, nostalgic journalists, misplaced faculty wives and outright intellectual bums who huddle up to the academic fire for warmth without fully belonging there. They clerk in the bookstores, talk the night away in the coffee shops, provide the steady custom for the bars...
Despite the phony dramaturgy of the script and narration, F.D.R. is one more victory for F.D.R. His warmth, his charm, his wit and his arrogance are everywhere in the pictures of him. When the raw material is left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light...
...Sandhill, N.C. Five nights later, he is traveling north again, with the bitter realization that he is still unneeded at home. But with him is his diffident, dependent old high school girl to serve as "his own little piece of Sandhill transplanted." She will radiate, if little light, more warmth than Ben Joe has ever known...
...Grand Hall, with its honey-colored onyx walls, its massive chan deliers, and its two graceful balco nies, was a masterful combination of warmth and tasteful luxury. Concertgoers mounted an elegant, cantilevered marble staircase that crossed a pool filled with white azaleas set in the lobby's floor, saw themselves multiplied into infinity in tall wall-size mirrors...