Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of Neuberger's speech, Mrs. George Malone, peppery wife of the Republican Senator from Nevada, rose from her chair, uttered a distinct boo, and flounced from the banquet hall. Afterward, she was scolded in the lobby by Perle Mesta, elder daughter of the Democratic regiment. Next day both ladies denied everything (she was only going to the ladies' room, explained Katie Malone), and Dick Neuberger, the man who wanted to be dignified, was the subject of caterwauling headlines across the nation...
...most part, the Poet's Theatre handles these effects well. Director Edward Thommen is especially successful in the first two acts, arranging his stage so that the relationships between each member of the cast may be carried out with dramatic effect. The third act, however, is a distinct disappointment, for which both the writer and the performers may share some of the blame. Johnston shifts from the more intimate episodes of the earlier acts to a series of short, emotional scenes underscored with a background of rolling thunder. Not only are these effects too grandiose for the size...
...being allowed to go anywhere near him." When a Roosevelt order deprived Ickes of some of his precious agencies, Ickes moaned: "I really believe that I am better physically when I am overworked. Ever since the President took PWA and other agencies away from me, I have felt a distinct loss in energy and initiative...
...impulsive ally. Dehler had given an interview to the Yugoslav Communist organ Politika, saying that he would agree to Communist-run "unfree elections" in the East zone if, by so doing, Germany could be unified. Said Adenauer to an applauding Munich crowd: Dehler's "statement is ... a distinct disservice to Germany." Dehler then accused Adenauer of a "giveaway" of Germany's national rights in the Saar; Adenauer countered by accusing Dehler of pandering to Germany's worst "nationalistic instincts...
...Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu. The part-Indian Cafes...