Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are those who argue that by facing the Soviet Union in the manner set forth above, we would be inviting World War III. To those we should recall the words of Patrick Henry, no less true today than in 1776: "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?" Peace at any price is a craven doctrine unworthy of the American nation...
...observer, who has closely watched McGeorge Bundy mature as Dean, attributes the 37 year-old administrator's attractiveness to the "real quality that underlies his efficient manner--the fact that he can apply one of the keenest possible intelligences to practical problems that involve human beings...
...never got a scoop in my life. They never seemed to me to have any sense. Most scoops were bad stories. And they were always exaggerated and played up in an idiot manner...
...muscular angels and simpering cherubim. But their virtuoso talents, turning back from the feverish mental imagery of the mannerists, also served as a transmission belt between the Renaissance and the three new paths Western art was to follow in the next two centuries. The ennobling gestures and grand manner were picked up by Rubens when he visited Rome, became a feeder line for the rhetoric and exuberance of the baroque artists. The Carracci's love of the local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed...
...advantage; and most important of all--the United States, through its Secretary of State, for conceiving that first tragic step, the Baghdad Pact, which gave the Soviets provocation to send Nasser the arms that unbalanced the Middle East, and for withdrawing the Aswan Dam offer in an insulting manner which provoked drastic Egyptian action. And most tragic, this whole chain of events--beginning with Dulles and ending with Eden--has divided the West and preoccupied world opinion while the Soviets wiped out the new Hungarian government...