Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a pleasure to have Mr. Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
...miles) range, but has yet to test it. Ike was not surprised at the range, since such a distance is within theoretical reach of the rocket engines that powered Sputnik. The President was more interested in Humphrey's report on Khrushchev's general manner, physical appearance, tone of voice. Democrat Humphrey left the President's office to savor the experience of occupying the center of the world's biggest Republican news stage as White House correspondents crowded around him, five-deep. Later, rounding out the acclaim, State Secretary John Foster Dulles called with a well-done...
...uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless the Western powers showed themselves ready to discuss the status of Berlin "in a businesslike manner," the U.S.S.R. would turn control of the ground and air corridors to Berlin over to the East Germans, and if an attempt was made to keep the corridors open by force, warned Khrushchev, "this would mean...
...floor studio, and became a changed man. "There was a tragic preoccupation on his face," says Novelist Hélène Parmelin. Every day after lunch he would go up to his studio "like someone going up to the scaffold." Picasso was attempting to repaint in his own manner and to do an analysis on canvas of the picture he considers one of the world's greatest-Velásquez' Las Meninas...
...traveling a far piece to all the frolics and play-parties in the mountain country, Schoolma'am Campbell became friendlylike with Aunt Lizbeth Fields, who had a big store of tales about all manner of things golden; and with Big Nelt, who was mighty queer-turned and droll-natured but a right accommodating man even if he didn't wear shoes except in chilling weather; and with Uncle Tom Dixon, who favored tales where things go in threes. Most all the stories are tales the tellers had always just known, tales that were told in the generations...