Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...Genial & Relaxed. Nixon, meanwhile, was doing some talking for himself in New Hampshire, where he is regarded as the front runner in the contest that starts the presidential primary season next March. Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with...
...power not seven minutes distant, not five miles off. In this Harvard shows itself no different perhaps than the society of which it is a product. No more and no less than the white bigot of South Boston, or the raw-voiced howling redneck of Alabama, the genial scholars of education and urban problems leave their offices at Harvard, step into their attractive little cars and drive off to their isolated white homes in segregated suburbs...
...principle should guide the deliberations: no student who now lives off-campus or wishes to do so should be forced to live in a House. So long as students are free to leave, the Houses will have an incentive to maintain themselves as the pleasant, genial dwellings they are generally known to be. As President Lowell wrote several decades ago, to permit students to rent apartments "has been thought wiser than to attach to the Houses any sense of compulsion or to make residence there other than a privilege...
...pique led the normally pro-Labor Daily Mirror, whose 5,000,000 circulation makes it London's largest tabloid, to take off after him. "The trouble about Mr. Brown is not that he drinks too much," said the Mirror, "but that he shouldn't drink at all. Genial George was born with so much natural ebullience that all it needs is a splash of soda to make his behavior intolerable. A double soda will, at the drop of a hat, make George the life and soul of the party, but it is not making him the life...