Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to say that the most urgent problem facing college students is the question of how to contain his sexual drives in a manner socially and personally satisfactory. He found that in college communities it was the girls who set the standards of sexual behavior...
...inner restraint which tighten the faces and figures of Michelangelo. Certain fine oil sketches like *uos Ego reveal the characteristics of the Baroque style which Rubens created almost singlehandedly. Classical clarity is replaced by endless movement, and color is handled in a broad, and, at times, impressionistic, manner. In other canvases the wave of line surges across and into the innermost depths of the pictures. In the complexities of foreshortening, irregular perspective and brilliant lighting, Rubens developed an artist's art. His overall effect is turbulent grandeur. Emotion flows beyond the restraint of garments and beyond the confines of pictures...
...politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...
...airborne tour of the U.S. and Europe, to win friends and stir up foreign interest in Brazil's vast problems and opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
...scene of the addict's redemption is a shocking one, and marks the high point of Frank Sinatra's career as an actor. His performance as Machine lacks the last traces of the relaxed crooner, a manner which the still retained in a few recent comedy roles. He plays the man with the golden arm with a new and almost cat-like power and precision. Sinatra's virtuosity also seems to have inspired the other members of the cast, for most of them give unusually fine performances. Arnold Stang, as a musy little thief, somehow manages to appear both corrupt...