Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
...Kooning cheerfully acknowledges this debt to nature: "I see things I like. I don't fight them. Maybe it's only a puddle. Four or five months later they come back to me." In much the manner of the old Zen painters, De Kooning believes the image must come all at once or not at all. When his three-year-old daughter Lisbeth put her hands on the wet paint, he left the palm print rather than doctor the surface and destroy the spontaneous feeling. "I'm not trying to be a virtuoso," he explains...
...Canadian referee issued to the Crimson a total of 15 penalties, one of which resulted in the Nomads' margin of victory. The Rugby Club president Bill Morse said after the game that the official, although certainly not partial to Toronto, interpreted the rules in a manner to which the Crimson was unaccustomed...
...enemies, particularly in the Foreign Office. For the first time the Communist press openly demanded representation in the government. In Washington, U.S. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles told a Senate subcommittee last week that the situation in Iraq is one of "the most dangerous in the world today." But the manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated the first May Day parade in its history, and the many thousands of Iraqis marching through Baghdad behind anti-imperialist banners was chilling proof of that...
...Brittany spaniel. Max broke into journalism as turf editor for Scripps-Howard in Cleveland, but horses were not his meat. Invited by the Press in 1939 to write about dogs, Riddle has since expanded into kindred fields. Besides his dog column he writes another devoted to all manner of animals, is an authority on most zoo animals, several kinds of lizards, and the diet of pet snakes (start with raw hamburger and worm, gradually reduce the worm content to zero...