Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...town behaved with mostly unruffled dignity and hospitality. But after a few patently successful attempts at informal mass communication-the telephone call-ins, the fireside chat in cardigan sweater-Jimmy retreated into his "nuclear" engineer's privacy, screened by a Georgia Mafia who lacked even the abrasive charm of basic good ole boys or the Kennedys' strident boyos. Nobody in Plains was exactly sure why Jimmy stayed away, but there were theories: possible embarrassment at Billy's high jinks, displeasure at the crude local commercialism, or maybe even advice from his pollsters to down-play the small...
Part of the bad blood is a basic personality clash. Rabin is a moody, taciturn introvert who is visibly uncomfortable with crowds. Peres is an outgoing gladhander who exudes an easy charm and tosses off aphorisms in at least four languages. Their public antagonism dates back to the aftermath of the 1973 Middle East war, when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party...
...trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover...
Some women, however, while they appreciate Wellesley's charm, still feel that a lot of its perquisites are artificial and unnecessary. "The alums have a lot of power--they replace the worn carpeting, make sure the lands are perfectly manicured, and work on ensuring that Wellesley remains static and unchanging," Trippe says. "In the springtime I can go out and pick bunches of azaleas and pussywillow and bring them back to my room because the campus is like a specimen or botanical garden. But then, you begin to wonder if it's natural for everything to be that perfect...
...orchestra, conducted the afternoon I attended by freshman wunderkind Stuart Malina, provided sturdy if uninspired accompaniment. Harriet D. Silbaugh's Tudor scenery has ginger-bread-house charm. And all in all, two misguided performances notwithstanding, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players give a classy operetta a yeomanly production...