Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free. An innocuous poet and his cowardly roomie stash some unwanted bombs in the bosom of an ample simpleton; she is torn off screaming by the dreaded Black-and-Tans, executed, and leaves the two with the empty feeling that they've been naughty, somehow, much in the manner young George Washington must have felt...
...results of the recent re-birth of the strength of the labor unions. Although many of his soldiers have confided to me their willingness to attack the Dominican Republic in a two-pronged blow at Batista and Trujillo, Castro himself professes no knowledge of any such plans. His manner, moreover, suggested that Batista's threat to return to Cuba at the head of 10,000 troops need not even be taken seriously...
These RFA's, often superior as a group educationwise, entered the Army for their active duty with a relatively high level of enthusiasm, but every RFA to whom I have spoken agrees that his education was no asset during his basic training. Their leaders, in the traditional Army manner, would tell them, "Let us do all the thinking. It'll keep you all out of trouble," and although this was a statment of discipline, it was also one of fact. What was taught the men was often so overdone and geared for the minimum mentality that an intelligent person eventually...
...during which he became increasingly aware of the gusts of new music blowing across the Channel from the Continent. When he finally got around to composing Gerontius (for the Birmingham Festival of 1900), he broke away from the standard English oratorio style, fused orchestra and vocal sound after the manner of Wagner's music dramas...
...then joined TIME. When foreign news duties took Griffith to Europe, he, like many another American, fell under the spell of the Continent's ancient glories, but coolly assessed its caretaker, rather than dare-taker, cultures. He admired the well-bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future...