Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanks for the fine manner in which you handled the Poteet-Lolita-Popsie article. MILTON CANIFF New York City...
...rebels held more than 2,000 captives. Urrutia declared that they would be tried by revolutionary courts "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany." About 300 others, Batista supporters, including the former boss of organized labor, Eusebio Mujal, crowded into Havana embassies. Urrutia said that Cuba would respect political asylum and allow the refugees to leave...
However, the arrival in Boston and Cambridge of two Jean Gabin films, both in the finest roman policier manner, should seriously damage the rating of such standbys as Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, Have Gun-Will Travel, and Gunsmoke. Gabin, of course, is the acknowledged king of French tommy-gun flicks. With his slightly paunchy and degenerate mien he is the very image of the slightly world-weary tuff guy, and the casual manner in which he slaps around both the guilty and the innocent is beyond compare...
...argument that Harvard, as a leader in American higher education, has a "responsibility to expand." Some point out that, as long as Houses are relieved of overcrowding to a tolerable degree, it will be possible to add new Houses, one by one, and expand the student body in this manner...
...talent Giulietta Massina evinced in La Strada--her ability to switch quickly among three or four strong and simple emotions--suits her perfectly for this role, in which she must switch only from outside prostitute to inside virgin. In the best sentimental Italian manner, director Federico Fellini selects the most poignant situations and evokes from his actress the response of wistfulness devastated, time and again...