Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. ruled that though a public-school teacher must tell all about his own past activities, his superiors have no right to force him to inform on others. "A school system," said Allen, "which sets one teacher against another in this manner is not conducive toward the strength and cohesion which need to exist in order to instill character into the student body...
...mixed in with them were wonderful wailing appoggiaturas and, above all non-Western melodic lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which suffused the whole with a subtle, intoxicating exoticism. An important role went to a solo viola, superbly played by Jean Comstock, which expressed itself in a manner always wistful and often melancholy. Vaughan Williams inserted before each section in his manuscript brief verses from the Song of Solomon; and Schmidt hit on the bright idea of having Kenneth Costin narrate these at the appropriate spots in the music. The balance of chorus, viola and piano was kept...
...Earl of Warwick, capturing perfectly that character's businesslike, practical, self-assured--in a word, English--qualities. Michael Wagner as the Dauphin stammered over his "B's" with considerable skill (and historical accuracy) and gave a good impression of weak mindedness. Frederic Tozere contributed a nice stolid manner and sermon-practiced voice as the Archbishop of Rheims. Earle Hyman as the good-natured general Dunois was methodical and colorless at first but picked up personality as he went along; and Ian Keith, Earl Montgomery, and Thayer David portrayed well three different strains of ecclesiastical...
Kirke Mechem's Rules for Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...
Lafayette had a faculty for speaking in quotation marks, as if he were conscious of his role in history. In his memoirs he referred to himself as "Lafayette," in the manner of Julius Caesar. He once claimed grandiloquently: "I have vanquished the King of England in his might, the King of France in his authority, the people in their fury. I shall not yield to Mirabeaij." Hanged Talker. The biographers docu ment Lafayette wherever history found him - which was at the dead center of the libertarian movement...