Word: manneredness
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Headquarters for the search for Aidit is an abandoned farmhouse twelve miles northeast of Solo. From it some 5,000 troops are combing the hills and stopping vehicles on the roads. Says mild-mannered Major Sajidiman, plotting the action on a U.S. Army map: "I am convinced that Aidit cannot...
Owned jointly by Kentucky's A. B. ("Bull") Hancock Jr. and Virginia's William Haggin Perry, Moccasin seems to have inherited all her family's good traits, none of the bad. Ridan was an incorrigible people-hater who ran away with his exercise boys. Lt. Stevens once...
However, one might well wonder why Louis Jourdan was ever cast as the leading man. Alan Lerner writes for protaganists who are mild-mannered yet tough, such as Rex Harrison or Richard Burton. Jourdan never goes beyond politeness, and hence he is penalized by being left blacked out at the...
EVE OF DESTRUCTION (Dunhill). With a belligerence that makes Dylan seem mild-mannered, Barry McGuire declares the nuclear apocalypse at hand. Enumerating signs of deterioration, from Congress to Selma and Red China, he castigates the entire world. Efforts to ban the song from radio have failed, and kids are buying...
But Americans like the idea of London, with its big, swanky clubs with ancient gaming names like Crockford's, which first cut a deck in 1824. "We are looking for an elegance that does not exist in the States," explained one. "Here bookmakers are rich, respected men. In the...