Word: dourness
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Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
...Konrad Adenauer, who for the last four years has presided over his country's economic resurgence and won his mistrusted nation a place in the councils of the West. Formally, West Germany will be voting for 484 Bundestag members. Actually, it will vote either to retain the dour old Chancellor or replace him with a Socialist. The betting was that he would win, but the spry, 77-year-old was taking no chances. On a 6,000-mile, month-long tour, he was delivering two or three speeches a day, carrying the brunt of the battle for his Christian...
...days wore on and methodical Ben went about his practice routine-three shots, differently placed, from every tee-Scottish annoyance turned to admiration for the dour little man from Texas. Before long, the Scots were calling him, almost affectionately, "The Wee Ice Mon," though a hard core still proudly insisted: "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie...
...opens You Shall Know Them, a pungent new novel by Vercors (real name: Jean Bruller), onetime French Resistance leader and author of the 1944 novel, The Silence of the Sea. Coming as it does only a few months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
Each day, Sir Winston opened the discussion by giving the Churchill view of this or that aspect of world affairs. Occasionally, some other P.M. would impress himself on the others-Malan, dour and superior; Canada's St. Laurent, dry and precise; Nehru, quick and likable but with an attachment to ideology that bored some of the battered politicos around him. But it was Churchill's conference throughout. He won Commonwealth backing on four big issues...