Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-minor, BWV 544, and Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. The Bach was especially welcome, for it is not often heard these days; it is a lofty master-piece built on unpromising material--one more proof that, in art, manner is more important than matter. Professor Piston's piece, idiomatically written and solidly crafted, still stands up admirably after fifteen years...
...might build its reputation on either of its two products: alumni or research. In practice, producing alumni is a tricky and unrewarding business, for there is no practical method of evaluating a young alumnus, nor of telling whether his quality is produced in college or in some other manner. As a result, you must wait until the public notices that your alumni become rich and famous--usually a half century after you have raised the quality of education. Only a college which views its mission as eternal can depend upon such a large delayed reaction...
...Black, who was most responsible for working out the Egyptian-British settlement in the first place (TIME, Jan. 19). Black agreed to return to Cairo to try "to remove the remaining points of conflict" without which Her Majesty's government-in the spirit of Palmerston, if not his manner-will not sign the agreement with Nasser...
...said the lawyer, "you have alleged in your complaint that your husband has treated you in a cruel and inhuman manner." "Well," came the soft, well-rehearsed response, "my husband has become interested in another woman.'' When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom...
...this hard core of hostility. Like Brando, Jimmy Dean, Rod Steiger, he's loaded with it." The quality lends a demon drive to Belafonte's career and immense conviction to his work. The minute he steps on the stage, he says, he tries by his manner to let his audience know: "I'll take no liberties with you and I hope you'll take none with...