Word: manneredness
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"We kept searching for guys with pointed ears, no necks and crew haircuts," Steven son says, "but all we ever seemed to find were nice-looking, well-mannered kids who were fun on the bus." Northwestern alum ni are more likely to be ac tors (Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty) than...
Ethnic America is Sowell's chronicle of the peopling of America, a tale that has found as many different ways of telling as there are historians to tell it. High school text-books indoctrinate young students of our culture with the vision of the land of opportunity and the open...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel...
"If you come out, John, I'll let you serve," coaxed a coy Billie Jean King. "You can even pick your own linesman." This last promise was one her quarry couldn't resist, and out from backstage came a head-banded, curly-haired, racquet-wielding Snoopy masquerading as...
Such men stand out against a near wasteland of postwar French abstraction. Even the best talents involved in it, like Nicolas de Staël (1914-55), now look somewhat mannered and superficial; no wonder that the paintings of the New York School had such a traumatic impact on their...