He was a kid, he grew up in certain circumstances: these are important for setting a scene and a tone, but I refuse to reduce -- as many scholars before me have -- his later political persuasions to a father- or mother-complex, or to some other childhood trauma, real or imagined.
And a little like the butler in the novel "The Remains of the Day," Young earnestly preps the staff, assigns the chintz-covered guest rooms and keeps the postprandial Scotch flowing, a form of persuasion later described by Esterhuyse as "Glenfiddich diplomacy".
After much persuasion, they relented.
The crime writer, whose play The Hollow had been presented by Saunders - as had touring productions of Murder At The Vicarage and Black Coffee - later yielded to his persuasion and expanded it into a play.
I invited her to become a trustee and a year later she needed little persuasion to become full time co-director with Don Rowe, shortly thereafter becoming chief executive, while Don and Tony Thorpe concentrated on the foundation's by then burgeoning programme of educational projects and materials.
In later life, Franco needed no persuasion to reminisce about working with Welles, recalling he had vouchsafed dislike of the soundtrack imposed on Touch of Evil by Universal.
(By 1959 Bay View had dropped the race requirement; from the 1960s to 1980s it implemented a 10percentt quota on Catholics. Bylaws later changed "Christian" to "Christian persuasion").. Faced with evidence of a clearly racist past, residents started talking.
He was trying to expand the base through persuasion of independents and, later, disaffected Democrats.
But three years later, Dr. Euwe's powers of persuasion were unable to get Fischer to defend his title, which fell by default to Anatoly Karpov, the current world champion.
US forces provided their allies among local militias with a handbook, later declassified, which explained how "techniques of persuasion" could be used against political opponents.
Well, mothers-in-law must have secret ways of persuasion, because a few days later I gave in, not only on seeing Einstein but also on taking along Bimba, my six-year-old daughter.
