Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once inside the capitol, Ford recovered his aplomb so quickly that he went right on to his meeting with Governor Brown without making any mention of the incident. In fact, Brown did not learn what had happened right outside his office until a Ford aide brought up the matter after half an hour. Later, Ford insisted upon addressing the California legislature as planned, without mentioning what had occurred earlier. He looked wan and was unusually serious. Ironically, his topic was crime. Ford told the lawmakers that he was especially concerned about "the truly alarming increase in violent crime throughout this...
...crew's youngest member is Lynn Silliman, 16, a 98-lb. coxswain from San Diego, who directs the boat with the aplomb of an old pro. The remainder of the crew comes from such schools as Radcliffe, Yale and Wisconsin. Excluding Silliman, they average an imposing...
...page and making them seem perfectly natural. He can also put over Shakespeare's puns--as when, in a colloquy about a three-voice song,he turns a ballad scroll into a phallus while assuring the others. "I can bear my part." He handles his several songs with aplomb too--especially his first. "When daffodils begin," which is appropriately, an example of the old reverdie, a song of nature's joy in the return of spring. Lee Hoiby's music, which is not very helpful in the first half of the show becomes a lot better when...
...known to millions of television viewers (Civilisation; The Romantic Rebellion) is the very portrait of composure. His U voice and elegant gaze-aimed levelly at the masterpieces and just slightly down upon his culture-hungry audience-seem capable of expressing anything but doubt. Who could guess that behind this aplomb a second Kenneth Clark lurks, irreverent, funny and tortuously complex? Another Part of the Wood, in effect, is an autobiographical ambush brilliantly staged by this Clark against his camera...
Alexander has responded to these attacks with enough aplomb to cast doubt on his own statement that "I'm not a p.r. man, and I'd finish last in a popularity contest." Last week he assured a House subcommittee that his agency is investigating Leprechaun and seeking to establish who was to blame. He guardedly compliments the ABC documentary for calling attention to a genuine need for closer congressional supervision of the IRS. His position is bolstered by the fact that for all the current bad publicity - much of which concerns incidents that occurred before he took over...