Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared with the marches of yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
Michel Deville, who directed her in Benjamin, feels that her burgeoning success is due to something more than the common combination of pressagent and pretty face. Her demeanor is cool as ever, but she has learned to project an atmosphere that audiences find appealing. "It's not really a question of expression," says Deville. "Even the great Greta Garbo didn't change her expression that much. She just created a mood around her, and Deneuve is growing more and more capable of doing the same...
Even Robert McNamara has an eye on a new New Frontier and, in a statement filmed for TV campaign plugs last week, dropped his normally cool demeanor to give an uncharacteristically effusive appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis. "He remained calm and cool," said the former Defense Secretary, "firm but restrained, never nettled and never rattled, and he demonstrated a most extraordinary combination of energy and courage, compassion and wisdom...
RICHARD EBERHART is straight. There is no hint of absinthe on this poet's breath, no bitter edge to his voice, or evidence of spleen in his demeanor...
...hands of those who avow devotion to Kennedy; it seems nothing less than a betrayal of a man who would never have hit another publicly with "locker room" gossip. He gave Khrushchev more dignity than that. It is a pity that President Kennedy's grace and respectful demeanor didn't communicate itself to Mrs. Lincoln...