Word: manneredness
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The desire for naturalism is deliciously expressed in a fragment from a huge Tree of Jesse, which probably decorated the first organ installed in St. Leonard's in the 16th century: David, dancing a jig before the Lord. Exuberance, indeed, was the most endearing characteristic of these relatively provincial...
Royalty, like well-mannered children, should be seen and not heard. That is why naughty Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands was scolded and put in a corner last week by Dutch Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel. The prince had sounded off in a newspaper interview about the country's system...
S.M.U. trustees broke with tradition two years ago after determining that their 625-student business school was mediocre. To shake things up, they hired C. Jackson Grayson Jr., a mild-mannered man with radical education ideas who graduated from the Wharton and Harvard business schools, is fascinated by oil wildcatting...
Hot Pants. The sense of outrage seemed a little tired, a little artificial, but it was not confined to the right. Capitol Hill was boiling all week. The normally mild-mannered Senate minority leader, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, spoke scornfully of "hotpants principalities" that had opposed the U.S. He and...
These have long been the public's favorite area of Picasso's work; to some degree they still are, and the desire to treat Picasso as if he had been a master from birth has absurdly inflated them. Thus Alfred Barr once wrote that a Picasso of 1905...