Word: warmth
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...reception that France gave Peru's visiting President Manuel Prado y Ugar-teche last week lived up in every aspect of official warmth and splendor to that given President Eisenhower last December. Bunting in Peruvian red and white floated from every government building, crowds cheered Prado in the streets, a 101-gun salute honored him at the Foreign Ministry. To the Parisian in the street, who did not necessarily know who Prado is, it may have seemed an outsize greeting, but beneath the hoopla was a serious, meaningful gesture, and back of it was Charles de Gaulle...
...want to continue being free men in a free world." Leaving Cuba after ten days, Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan had scored high, winning a trade treaty and a promise of resumed diplomatic relations. But there were many signs that the common Cuban found the new warmth between Havana and Moscow distasteful and even dangerous...
Joey's quips are delivered with a warmth that never wounds. Even the self-protective Sinatra loves them. The "summit session" at the Sands was made possible because all of its stars are in Vegas for the filming of Frank's new movie, Ocean's II. But the nightly "meetings," says Frank in a masterfully mixed metaphor, "could not have come off without the Speaker of the House-Joey Bishop, the hub of the big wheel...
...picture, though filmed in Eastman Color of a particularly somber and romantic richness, has the inevitable inadequacies of photographed theater. The warmth of the living illusion is lost in cold celluloid, and the creative gesture of the camera is frustrated. As the camera wanders uncertainly through the theater, often too close to the action, often too far away, the spectator begins to feel as if he is traipsing about in search of a seat...
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. With his customary warmth and humor, the author in this early novel tells about a little devil of a slum boy evacuated to an English village during the blitz...