Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camellias. The courtly scion of four generations of South Carolina lawyers, who grows camellias for a hobby, Haynsworth had little stomach for the fight. He received the news of his rejection in his characteristically quiet manner, and with some relief: "The ordeal of the past two months has ended," he said afterward. Haynsworth said he was going to consider if he should resign his present judgeship...
...almost feminine sing-song. He stepped back from the mike for just a second after each one, flashing a sly twinkle or a sheepish shrug as the poem demanded. The crowd loved the shrugs: each one said, What the hell, sounds good, don't it? The boyishness of his manner-you got the idea that the whole role of the Coming Poet strikes him as outrageously funny-endeared him to the audience. They liked him because he is profound, but they loved him be he thinks...
Died. Ferdinand Eberstadt, 79, Wall Street financier and one of the early masters of the corporate merger; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Once described as "a man whose manner is pleasantly abrasive, like a rough towel after a cold shower," Eberstadt was an enormously successful investment banker (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) and mutual-fund pioneer (Chemical Fund), but his greatest fame came from his ability to help arrange some of industry's biggest mergers over the years: Dodge and Chrysler, United Artists and Transamerica Corp., Douglas Aircraft and McDonnell Aircraft and, on the day of his death...
...Miriam, a ghost tale in the manner of Henry James, a loquacious Nanny (Mildred Natwick) is persecuted by a dead-eyed little girl (Susan Dunfee). Capote, who wrote the story at the age of 17, may be excused for an inability to distinguish between the gothic and the baroque. The Perrys, who clutter the episode with hollow scenes, flat performances and melodramatic terror-music, cannot be so easily...
About one in the morning, a bunch of us drove out to Arlington National Cemetery. A half dozen MP's with jeeps and rifles and all manner of meanness barred us from entering. They told us that the beginning of the March Against Death had been moved down to the Memorial Bridge, then told us to move...