Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming campaign." To satisfy this interest, Dulles had prepared a statement about the extent to which he thought foreign policy should- or should not-become a 1956 campaign issue. Debate on foreign policy, said Dulles, "should be welcomed so long as it is constructive and conducted in such a manner as not to endanger our nation. It needs to be remembered that those hostile to the U.S. and its ideals are not going to take a vacation so that we here can safely concentrate on a domestic political battle . . . Our nation will need the same bipartisan unity which...
...power. In doing that, they would also be standing by their own party record as the opposition, particularly in 1952. The general objectives of American foreign policy are what they have been ever since leadership of the free world was thrust upon this country." And opposition attacks upon the manner in which the Administration seeks to attain these objectives are, said Krock, "historic, legitimate and inevitable in the American political system...
...Hsinhua Daily took aim at the "lawless bourgeoisie" for using "sugarcoated bullets" in its "attack against the working class." Apparently the remaining shop owners, who are forbidden to close up their businesses while the government exacts a confiscatory tax on all their sales, are guilty of all manner of capitalistic vices. Sample sugar-coated bullet: "evilly increasing salaries." The evil of a wage raise, Hsinhua Daily explained, is "in eroding the thinking of the . . . workers, in softening their fighting spirits...
...Guard is one of Sullivan's finest scores, certainly his most operatic, and it is performed all too seldom. The performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...
...Brown was faced with the dilemma which occurs in G. and S.--that the romantic hero tends towards insipidity compared with the comic hero, who always holds the audience's primary interest. Brown overcame this dilemma partially by playing the role for laughs in a rather moonstruck, Russel Nype manner...