Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wednesday, October 15, 1941, the Harvard Club of New York City--definitely, finally, and irrevocably--gave in. Its long-awaited Club Rooms for The Ladies were thrown open to use. Let it be said that 76 years of splendid and masculine isolation were yielded up in the grand manner...
...Enemies. Dynamic, shrewd, almost hypnotic in his molasses-smooth manner, Odie Seagraves earned a reputation as "the man who can borrow more money on less collateral than any man in Texas." Along the way, he made-and invariably lost-staggering fortunes, yet always found the backers for still another deal. "Odie," says an awed and envious rival, "can make a hundred enemies and kiss them all good-bye-and go out and make a hundred friends and get a hundred million...
With an air and manner about him that compelled attention, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was the Man in the News last week, and in his t ypical indefatigable way, he made a lot of it. He had come to the U.S. primarily to talk with the President on the problems and promises of the world. But along his word-strewn way he shook a multitude of hands, graced a dozen receptions, closeted himself a dozen times with dozens of officials, dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, lunched with Dag Hammarskjold, raised his goblet of orange juice in dozens...
...Grand Maneuver. An exquisite exercise in the art of film, all manner and no matter, directed by one of the screen's old masters, René Clair (TIME...
...enough to provide superior TV drama last week over CBS's Playhouse go (Thurs., 9:30-11:00 p.m.). Writer Frank D. Gilroy had the sense to stick close to Marquand's story, and the talent to weave many of the bland Marquand nuances of class and manner into a go-minute teleplay that had consistency, pace and believability. Good direction (by Vincent Done-hue) carried the story past Gilroy's occasional rough spots and got good performances out of a good cast. Sarah Churchill was a handsome, if not sufficiently Scott Fitzgeraldean, Bess Harcourt...