Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Roper, are a feeling that it's time for a change, that Dewey has proved himself a capable administrator, that he would be able to handle Russia abroad and do a "good, sound, businesslike job" at home. Against him is a dislike of the cold, cocksure Dewey manner, a fear that he is motivated by expediency, and the fact that he has run before and lost. As of last month, when Dewey was riding the crest of his Oregon victory, he could have beaten President Truman by 41% to 34%, would have lost to Ike Eisenhower...
...Said the communique: "The Cominform finds that the leadership of Yugoslav Communists creates a hateful policy in relation to Soviet Russia and the All-Communist Union of Bolsheviks . . . They identify the policy of Soviet Russia with that of imperialist [Western] powers and they treat Soviet Russia in the same manner as they treat the bourgeois states . . . The Cominform condemns these anti-Soviet conceptions...
...sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition, and to the manner of playing, the possibility of Ophelia's madness is planted early, its causes are enriched, and Hamlet soars to his soliloquy with acute, immediate reasons for contemplating suicide...
...enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble looking old enough to be the beauteous Majesty of Denmark. But her performance is a profoundly exciting job of tragedy in the grand manner...
Caricatured Psychiatrists. When he discusses Kinsey's attitude toward psychiatrists, Dr. Kubie loses his proper bedside manner entirely. It almost seems, he laments, that the Kinsey Report is trying to caricature the psychiatrist. He cites one statement: "There are some psychoanalysts who contend that they never had a patient who has not had incestuous relations." Snapped Kubie: "There has never been and never will be any psychoanalyst who has made such a statement . . . We expect such distortions from occasional biased and irresponsible ignoramuses, but not from responsible fellow scientists...