Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, made his way across the eastern half of the U.S. last week, there was something manifestly rocklike about his manner. It was more than his flinty visage, more than his granitic words of advice (see below). In Konrad Adenauer the nation perceived a solid faith that the only way to preserve the West against Communism-smiling or unsmiling-is a steadfast pursuit of the policy of strength. Measured by Adenauer the Rock, it was clear how far the Western allies have drifted since Moscow began its seductive foreign policy aimed...
...self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow of exultation.' That principle has now been extended . . . Within the last ten years the U.S., always acting in a bipartisan manner, has made such treaties with 42 countries of America, Europe and Asia. These treaties abolish, as between the parties, the principle of neutrality...
Appearance: Over 6 ft., a lanky, handsome man with square, impassive face, copious greying hair, muscular neck and a brusque manner, obviously accustomed to authority. Tallest of the top Soviet leaders, most of whom date from the days when Stalin liked no one to be taller than...
...intellectual life and so prone to bedding with students that she soon found herself the mother of a bastard child. Her lover Jacques had already fathered two bastards by the time they met, and his approach to women was always patterned on that of his intellectual idols. "In the manner of Gide," he would tell a susceptible girl, "I offer you fervor...
...this manner, Perles, a Vienna-born writer, makes his bid to be an official court jester and chronologer to the King of Bohemia; he spent five months in his prize panjandrum's presence at Big Sur to put finishing touches to the only autobiography of Henry Miller not written by Henry Miller...