Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julia Child [Nov. 25] Her French Chef, on WTTW, is a regular in our house. Even the children-five of them, 14 down to four-prefer it to the tripe generally offered. I don't really know if they're learning anything, but they enjoy her breathless manner of speaking, are fascinated by the way she tosses around whole fish and cuts of meat, and are rather glad they don't have to do dishes after she cooks: "All those pots...
...true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "the perfect candidate, then, is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manner and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality, and devotion to the public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...
Like most diplomats. Brown has more than enough opportunities to bend an elbow-and he can prove irrepressible when doing so. His friends insist, however, that tales of his tippling are exaggerated by the British press, and that his unorthodox ways and occasional rudeness of manner are small prices to pay for the integrity and insight with which he tackles his job. Brown is awed by few people, not even by the royal family. When he encountered Princess Margaret at a recent party greeting other ladies with regal little kisses, he asked if he could have one too. Replied...
...that Stacomb boy," says he can tell when the unkempt Novak is around because he can "smell" him. Still, the Evans-Novak style of reporting does not always make L.B.J. look bad. Like almost all the rest of the press, they took the President to task for the offhand manner in which he announced the appointment of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach as Under Secretary of State. But unlike most of their colleagues, they went on to explain why Katzenbach was a wise choice, how much care and thought went into the selection...
...goes. There is a grisly interlude about Kito, a little Japanese girl who performs a striptease in the "Su-Chuan manner," that is, with the help of a large black dog. Unfortunately, little Kito dies, or seems to die, from an overdose of an experimental drug, and her body is sold to be served with various sauces in a well-known Hong Kong restaurant. As the narrator puts it: "The Chinese cuisine has the advantage of making its contents unrecognizable...