Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship...
...Williamson has tried all sorts of categories. After arriving in London, he worked with twelve-tone Composer Elisabeth Lutyens, but soon found that discipline "stiff and disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...
Despite her "gingerbready" mannerisms, Sandy is fast becoming known as one of the most imaginative actresses around. "She'll never play a part in a conventional manner," says William Daniels, co-star of her new play, Daphne in Cottage D. "She drives the less imaginative directors up the walls." That she gets away with it doubtless reflects a growing U.S. hunger for actresses of talent rather than tinsel. But equally important is Sandy's own single-minded drive for theatrical achievement. Her background has a lot to do with it. She comes from Nebraska, and as a matter...
Past Is Present. What is anyone to make of all this? It is way out, and redeemed from boredom, if not confusion, by Sinclair's great verbal felicity. He can, in the manner of James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady...
...landslide, he then ironically lost his own seat to John F. Kennedy, partly because vengeful Taftites voted en masse for J.F.K. But no matter: for the next eight years Lodge earned international fame as Ike's U.N. ambassador, slugging it out verbally with the Russians in a manner that made him a TV hero...