Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...
...installing machinery for a Soviet oil refinery. Conductor Hrdliczka quickly became Mrs. Hofmann, settled down to live in a plain clapboard house in Larchmont, N. Y. For her concert last week she somehow managed to hire 60 expert players from the Philharmonic-Symphony. The men liked her. Her manner was agreeable, her beat graceful and sure. Hrdliczka's concert sounded better than Antonia Brico's which took place four days later. But Antonia Brico had a stiffer undertaking...
More shocking was the Chronicle's further belief that "the families visited are descendants of parents who lived in the same manner, are products of a combination of poverty, utter ignorance and interbreeding of families, through generations. . . . It was found that many people in Jefferson County know the families, and have known of their condition for years...
...Chronicle's conclusions: The condition of Jefferson County's lowly 1% is beyond the help of relief agencies. Long-range rehabilitation, geared to individual cases, is the only remedy. "They need education not only in the accepted manner but on moral codes of civilization of which they are not a part." Treatment indicated: Sterilization, provided by a bill passed by the Georgia House and pending before the Senate...