Word: languid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Views & Policies: Loves his job, and has turned down a better one (Defense) to keep it. Has outgrown, though he has not found it necessary to repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates...
Americans have traditionally conceived of South America as a semi-dark continent, filled with languid Latins who occasionally excite themselves in unnecessary and harmless revolutions. With this attitude prevailing in the United States, Latin America has been for the most part ignored, the State Department bestirring itself only when European powers appear about to take over. Of late, American foreign policy has almost entirely been concerned with building a defense ring in Europe and Asia. This is an undeniably necessary project, but the probability of holding the Asian line is at most doubtful. Should much of our support in other...
Perry Como is so relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...
...played all the notes and played them beautifully, and listeners heard unfamiliar details, but somehow the music failed to billow and surge. It was as if a dry land breeze were blowing over Debussy's sea that day. Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony suffered similarly: the fragrant resonances, the languid rubatos and the snarling brasses were there, but the fantasy was hard to find...
...begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief, only to grow steadily more sober in tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...