Word: manneredness
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As a theater piece Romulus owes a calculable debt to Cyril Ritchard, who makes of the emperor a mock-serious dandy, and whose drolly mannered and expertly timed delivery accounts for most of the evening's laughs. Playwright Vidal's contribution to the Duerrenmatt script seems to consist...
Sharp Look. In his crisply written trilogy, Waugh seems to be turning back from the mannered romanticism of Brideshead Revisited. But this is not the exuberant young cynic of Decline and Fall, Black Mischief and A Handful of Dust; sophistication has been supplanted by weary wisdom, not-so-innocent merriment...
>In Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, only 7,813 diehard fans showed up to watch mild-mannered Champion Floyd Patterson initiate Challenger Tom McNeeley into his "Bum of the Year" club. A pug-nosed, ex-Michigan State footballer who once visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley...
Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars...
Died. The Most Reverend John Joseph Mitty, D.D., 77, mild-mannered but strong-minded spiritual leader who in 26 years as Archbishop of San Francisco presided over 500 major building projects and the establishment of 84 new parishes and missions; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif.