Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO (Columbia). Country-western purists are likely to yell "fake" at this album. True, the Byrds don't sound exactly like Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, but they do perform the material with simplicity and in a relaxed, folky manner. Woody Guthrie's socialist hymn to Pretty Boy Floyd gets an authentic bluegrass treatment here, and Blue Canadian Rockies, an old Gene Autry tune, will bring back memories of the Hollywood cowboy astride his horse Champion, galloping through "the golden poppies. . . 'round the banks of Lake Louise." Two Bob Dylan songs, Nothing Was Delivered...
...knew what Fortas thought about the films. The court judgment involving them was one of the many per curiam decisions, which do not require Justices to write their opinions. In an obscenity case, what is often at issue is not the merits or demerits of the film, but the manner in which it was seized, the legality of the prior court action, and the definition of obscenity in the individual situation. Definitions have been vague ever since the landmark Roth decision of 1957, eight years before Fortas was appointed an Associate Justice. That decision established several broad criteria of tolerance...
...Communist political groupings that had grown up during Czechoslovakia's springtime of freedom, and reaffirmed the total and irrevocable supremacy of the Communist Party. By afternoon, it was all over. Only two Deputies had dared abstain on the press bill. Otherwise, the votes were all unanimous. In that manner, the captives forged their own chains...
...only international dispute: General de Gaulle's persistent encouragement of Quebec separatists. When De Gaulle at his press conference brusquely lumped Canada with Nigeria and Malaysia as federations in trouble, Trudeau shot back that the general was "not overly impressed with reality." Nor, apparently, with diplomatic good manners. Trudeau at the same time blistered the French government for sending a cultural emissary to French Canadians in Manitoba in an "underhanded and surreptitious" manner without so much as a by-your-leave from the Canadian government...
...Brinton's seminars and tutorials students learned to expect unremitting pressure for intellectual precision. In both scholarship and literary style, Brinton was demanding. His own work furnished for his students a prime example of diligent historical scholarship presented in a graceful manner...