Word: warmth
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...foie gras, noix de veau Orloff and three French wines. Jackie sat at De Gaulle's right, charmed him with her careful, schoolbook French. When he rose to toast his visitors, De Gaulle again spoke in austere tones, but veteran observers of his methods noted a rare, genuine warmth as he told the Kennedys: "You saw this morning how happy Paris was to see you. I do not need to add anything to this...
...Warmth for its own crude sake...
...after he had been greeted at Sanders Theatre by a tumultuous standing ovation, "I don't deserve all that applause. After all, I'm just an ordinary sinful human being like anyone else." But it takes less faith in human nature than Seeger's to perceive that his personal warmth and sincrcity on stage is no pose...
...warmth of the crowds that greeted him was enough to lure almost anyone back to politics. He had to fight his way past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper in Des Moines, 10,000 at a Detroit fund-raising rally, 1,100 at a $100-a-plate dinner in Columbus, where Young Republicans toasted him with a convention-style "demonstration," complete with victory banners such as "We'll do more...
Seven German schoolboys, all 16, all in the same small-town classroom, are called to the colors on the same day: April 27, 1945. The first half of the film expounds the character and background of the boys with a warmth and sensitivity that soon makes the moviegoer care very much what happens to them. Jürgen, son of a rich landowner, is passionately proud of a father fallen for the Fatherland and boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter...