I wrote Frazier, George, duende into Google search and got this:
1. The ability to attract others through personal magnetism and charm; charisma;
2. Spell, charm, trance, infallibility; a spellbinding spirit; a poetic expression describing the magic essential to certain art forms.
While there is no perfectly accurate English translation of duende, it is a certain quality we all have witnessed. A magnetism, charm and charisma, all rolled into one. The late, great Boston Globe columnist George Frazier became synonymous with duende, for his columns discussing the phenomenon.
"It so difficult to define," Frazier wrote. "Yet when it's there, it is unmistakable, inspiring our awe, quickening our memory… to observe someone or something that has it is to feel icy fingers running down our spine."
By George, he's got it.
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