Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold Dahl was an air-age soldier of fortune with a quiet, ingratiating manner, the face of an unappreciated minor poet-and an astonishing talent for oscillating rapidly between the frying pan and the fire, meanwhile eating well and never getting badly burned. He was also a good pilot-and a very lucky...
...part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce. In a good production, David Wayne's Uncle Daniel is outstanding: he plays the part, not with small studio strokes, but with a fine, freewheeling manner and a whole-grained physical sense...
...result belongs to the dream world that Blanche inhabits, not to the real world that Tallulah evokes. Too often frustrated, tremulous Blanche was one thing, leopard-like Tallulah another; and they could not exchange their spots. Instead of genteel make-believe, there was a kind of barbaric grand manner...
...Obviously, society could not long endure if its institutions of higher learning should array themselves at the side of lawlessness . . . I believe I can count on each of you, both faculty and students, to cooperate in such manner as to make certain that the University of Alabama will be on the side of law and order...
Finding each passing minute inexpressibly sweet, Donat lives with-for him-a reckless bravado. Mounting the pulpit for his sermon to the students, he tears up his prepared notes and launches into a compelling hosanna to the joys of living dangerously, accepting all manner of challenges and temptations, throwing off the winding sheets of conformity. The boys love it, of course, but the church elders are shocked...