Word: manneredness
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There once was an old Russian peasant woman, probably Nikita Khrushchev's grandmother, and she kept about a dozen chickens. One chicken, Charlie was her name, was a petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to...
Mannered Genius. But the error had been pressed upon him. Convinced that Lewis is Vivaldi's nephew, his cult has urged him into thinner and thinner air since he appeared with his three fellow ascetics in the first Modern Jazz Quartet performances ten years ago. In pursuit of something...
In the booby roles, Mr. Chapman has been most fortunate. Mr. Lyons (Donald, is it not?) has been great before, but as the astrologically minded Foresight he has a chance to overact to perfection. This ancient of days has a small and ugly beard which just horizontally from his chin...
The program called it the $125,000 Washington, D.C. International, and 13 thoroughbreds from nine nations pranced to the post at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. But to the fans, it was strictly a domestic affair, a test between the three top U.S. horses: Jack Dreyfus' sprinter, Beau...
The first sentence begins, "As a large, unruly audience jammed Jordan Hall to jeer and laugh, Robert Welch...." Although the audience of the Ford Hall Forum may disagree with the speakers they come to hear, they represent the most intelligent, the most cultured, and best mannered people of Boston. The...