Word: demeanors
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...etched ecclesiastical portraits of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Edmund Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...
...acting honors in this film go to several Chinese patriots, without acting experience, whom Producer Zimbalist and Director Mervyn LeRoy recruited chiefly in San Francisco-a literary scholar, a dealer in antiques, etc. In their probity of demeanor and feeling, they offer a beautiful testimonial to their nation, and testify, as well, to the magnificent possibilities of using non-actors far more generally in films. The acting of the professionals (including Spencer Tracy as Colonel Doolittle) is also sincere and creditable. It is most pleasing, perhaps, in the case of Van Johnson, whose handling of his largest and most serious...
Franklin Roosevelt lobbed the weekly quota of hopeful political questions back high and easy, like a bull pen catcher on a hot afternoon. Then Elizabeth May Craig of Maine newspapers, famed among correspondents for her unabashed demeanor at Presidential press conferences, fogged one over in her come-out-and-fight soprano: "Mr. President, would you care to say whether you think Governor Dewey would make a strong opponent...
...matter what the general tenor of the news, keep an informative, unexcited demeanor at the microphone...
Psychic Suicide. Elsie Venner is Holmes's most interesting and hardest case. Holmes's analysis of her "psychic suicide" is a model of modern psychiatric thinking. His account of her symptoms (a stiff, frozen demeanor, withdrawal into herself, occasional wild behavior) was a precise description of schizophrenia-though the word and disease were unknown in Holmes...