Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner novel for a cemetery," one historian observes, "it became a favorite carriage drive for Boston families, and a show-place to which were taken famous visitors, like Dickens, Emporer Dom Pedro of Brazil, and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), who planted a purple beech tree...
...rationale is the University's feeling of obligation to act as an entity in a manner befitting a responsible citizen, does such an obligation justify the more stringent enforcement of the law on certain members of the larger community, ie the students, than on others. University fines, to which only students are subject, are higher than Cambridge fines...
...response to this obvious invitation, the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles made the next conciliatory move. "The essence," he said, "if ... we are to seek justice, is that the operation of this international utility shall be insulated from the politics of any nation." By his manner, Fawzi intimated his assent; it was obviously time to head off Security Council action on an Anglo-French proposal to condemn Egypt for its canal seizure and explore what Fawzi meant by "cooperation." Fawzi agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary...
...Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...
Debussy: Songs (Suzanne Banco, soprano; Guido Agosti, piano; London). A dozen samples of ecstasy in the French manner, i.e., the music sometimes croons languorously, sometimes soars dizzily, sometimes seems almost paralyzed with rapture. Debussy is the perfect composer for all this, French is the perfect language, I and the pure, true, warm voice of Soprano Banco is practically ideal...