Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time Irishman Powers is pitted against a different type of adversary. Last time around, he sat across the bargaining table from Amory Howe Bradford, 52, vice president and general manager of the New York Times, an Ivy League product (Phillips Academy, Yale '34) whose icy and unbending demeanor only stiffened Bert Powers' spine. This time, the publishers' bargaining voice is John J. Gaherin, 50, an Irishman with whom Powers can probably come to terms...
...better suited than Shakespeare to this kind of confined performance. His characters describe the scenery. His imagery colors the world in which they move. There is so much for an actor to do with each line, that any but the best must stumble in the robes, or forget the demeanor, that a full-scale production demands. And there is so much for the audience to enjoy and consider in the words alone, that the traditional trappings are often a distraction...
...points, any millionaire eight, a corporation lawyer six, an obscure artist two, a clerk 0, a factory worker minus one, a Japanese (except in California) minus three-then allot each a proportionate amount of attention. Add to this a "respectful, alert, eager to learn and anxious to serve" demeanor toward ecclesiastical superiors, and eventually someone will tell the powers that be, "Jim Goodfellow is the man you are looking...
...alone, but all the things that offend the typical tourist in Spain -stalled trains, unpredictable electricity, fire engines screaming like "Amazon howling monkeys"-delight Honor Tracy in this brief and lively travel book. She is entertained by what most tourists never even notice: "The men maintained their usual impassive demeanor" and, dressed in corduroy suits and broad black hats, looked "out from the dusty taverns hour after hour, silent, neither drinking nor playing cards, as if merely waiting for the end of the world...
Although his country-boy demeanor is in sharp contrast to the stylish brilliance of John Kennedy, Johnson has managed to gain the loyalty of the old Kennedy Cabinet, the trust of his top Administration aides and-something Kennedy never really had-the confidence of key men in Congress. Already Johnson's persuasive powers have brought legislative results: an earlier tax cut, a stopgap farm bill, two education bills, a reduced budget. And almost certainly a civil rights bill will be passed this year...