Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His smile is warm and real, he delivers unbending conservative judgments calmly and in carefully chosen language. Removed from the shorthand rhetoric of a campaign, the judgments are often buttressed by soundly reasoned arguments. Even on campuses, his personality won attention for ideas that were anathema. He holds doors open...
Street confrontations like Sybil's can drive the most mild-mannered, apolitical young Radcliffe thing to Bread and Roses. They can (and did) mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their biceps and hardhats. And street...
Almost overnight, the world of Armand Portnoy, mild-mannered owner of a Parisian garage, was transformed. There were anonymous telephone calls, bad jokes from close friends and insinuating remarks from mere acquaintances. It was poor Portnoy's most harrowing experience since the day in World War II when he...
The mild-mannered accountant found it childishly easy. One of the company's suppliers was Marcel et Cie. When Marcel Ermacora typed out their checks, he banged hard on the "Marcel," holding back on the "et Cie." When the checks were returned with a company official's signature...
Curtis' paintings have none of the conceptual density or revolutionary aims of surrealist imagery; they are gentle, mannered, elegiac, peopled with doll-like Edwardian women and dandified men. These ghosts, thin and sharp as memory in the preservative desert air, flit through empty, curlicued facades or congregate amid their...