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Word: mannered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irritable and distantly intimate. Sunrise at Campobello is most successfully concerned with F.D.R.'s relations to himself. It thus makes possible Ralph Bellamy's extraordinarily effective portrayal, one which achieves not bits of personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words but a manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...still got it, and I never used it on him at all ... Zachary Taylor and General Grant and the present occupant of the White House are good men. They're honorable men. They want to do the right thing, but they've been educated in a manner that's like a horse with blinders on-he only sees one direction right down the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: First Draft of History | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...moment, the regulars didn't give much of a hang about the issues. What they liked was that both Barry Goldwater and Sherman Adams tub-thumped in the manner that old-style Republicans remembered-and like, especially at campaign time. Both had raised more G.O.P. whoops and hollers, had churned up more Democratic outrage than a lethargic, dispirited party had heard in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Do It Yourself | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Sent to live with his grandmother, Adnan was brought up in sunny Izmir (Smyrna) on the Aegean coast, in a manner befitting a young gentleman of property. His English bike was the best in his fashionable neighborhood, his pocket money ample, and his clothes impeccable. At Izmir's American International College, a Congregational mission school that he entered at 13, Adnan showed himself an exceptionally good student and a born athlete. He was center forward on the school soccer team, an outstanding swimmer, and a first-class billiards player whose popularity was enhanced by the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Mark Frazer, wearing the clothes and upper-class manner of his Cambridge background, goes to his office, does his work, comes home. If asked, he insists that he is unwavering in his support of the Soviet system, and that he would rather live in Moscow than anywhere else in the world. It is either that or the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: At Home with the Frazers | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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