Word: conversationalist
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...1950s, they had many of their own athletic teams, The Radcliffe News, By-Line, a literary magazine, and a radio station WRRD, operating in affiliation with the MIT radio station until 1960. The Crimson, in its 1950 registration issue commented only that "today's Cliffe-dweller is an easy conversationalist and apt to be a good looker...
...daughter, both in their 20s, and the husband of Psychiatrist Janet Jeppson (his first marriage ended in divorce in 1973). The robust and prodigious eater is the survivor of a 1977 heart attack as well as a thyroid cancer operation. The inveterate partygoer and dazzling conversationalist never drinks anything stronger than ginger ale. The carefree author cannot shake a persistent fear−certainly not of writer's block, or of ill health, or even of nuclear catastrophe. The man whose fiction has sent men and machines across whole galaxies, and through time in perhaps his most memorable single novel...
...boss, Yuri Andropov, took command in 1967, and in 1973 became the first KGB head since Stalin's dreaded Lavrenti Beria to join the ruling Politburo. Andropov, 63, is said to admire modern art and to be a witty conversationalist who speaks fluent English-a portrait that contrasts with his harsh actions as Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary during the 1956 uprising. Under Andropov, says one Western analyst, "the thugs are being weeded...
...medium full of talk, Kenneth Clark remains television's only great conversationalist, and he is better-more relaxed, more personal, able to avoid the least hint of the lecture hall-in The Romantic Rebellion (PBS, Monday, Jan. 13, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) than he was in Civilisation...
...found himself, and though an inbred civility made it impossible for him to get rid of them as quickly as he would have liked, he found that by staring at walls even as people tried to talk to him, he could discourage even the most aggressive bad conversationalist. The virtues of silence are old-fashioned, but Beach enjoyed them occasionally without worrying about appearing dated. At 22 Beach did not really fear for his contemporaneity...