Word: manneredness
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This cry from the well-mannered heart carries across 15 novels and almost 20 years-in fact from Under the Net, which the author wrote in 1954.
Hardly anyone expected that Héctor Cámpora, the mild-mannered ex-dentist hand-picked by Juan Perón as his movement's candidate for President, would easily unite the fractious Argentines. Few, though, expected that potentially explosive trouble would break out on the day of...
Shadow of a Doubt. One of the films Hitchcock thinks his best, with Joseph Cotton playing a psychotic murderer hiding in a small town behind his mild-mannered exterior. Technically, this is one of Hitchcock's subtlest films. This lack of ostentation is what makes it so effective. 1943.
SUPERMAN, then, is the only character who is supposed to be a klutz, and he doesn't shine as much as he could with so much competition from the rest of the crew. But Raphael Cohen, in his dual role as the Man and particularly as mild-mannered reporter Clark...
At 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, Harvard ski team captain Ben Steele stole into a paperback bookstore on Mass Ave. Why was he smiling so? With some advice whispered to him by a tan, dark-haired woman from Woodstock, Vt., he made his choice from the fiction rack. A glance at...