Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meir accused the Egyptian government of planning the wholesale expulsion of 30,000 Jews from Egypt. Two days later, Britain and France protested to the U.N. that large numbers of the nearly 20,000 French and British nationals in Egypt were being forced out of the country in a manner "reminiscent of the barbarous methods of mass deportation . . . which have been practiced in other countries...
...white costume. As the girl's husband, struggling to find meaning or justice in a frustrating world, David Lange is rather eloquent. David Cupp's rigid expressions are just right for the Spanish nobleman father, and Phyllis Ferguson, as the mother, conveys sorrow and resentment in a visually excellent manner. Lee Jeffries, as a witch-like partial leader of the chorus and voice of conscience, grinds out her evil incantations with great effect, even if she at first juggles a few too many accents on her tongue. Louise Bell, as the vision of the dead sister, is properly lovely, graceful...
...witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement is due to the fine performance of Melvyn Douglas as Darrow. One scarcely realizes just how well Douglas acts until he sheds the shuffling, angular manner of the lawyer and comes onstage for his curtain call, transformed and years younger than he has seemed throughout the play. James Westerfield, while not always as convincing as Douglas, still aquits himself capably as Bryan...
...virtuously decided that America can no longer afford to retain cultural contacts with them. The principle of keeping children in their own yards may apply in family discipline, but it has utterly no value, coercive or moral, in international relations. The Russians have behaved in an unpardonable manner, but the empty symbol of American moral indignation is not valuable enough to risk the danger of cultural isolationism...
They say that he became more and more difficult to work with, more demanding in his manner, more imperative in his decisions, more stubborn in pursuing his own way in defiance of contrary advice...