Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Masters meet today and discuss the manner of their appointments of inter-House council members, they had better be careful, and stop, and look. There is an unpleasant number of students in each of the Houses who will shortly be knocking on the Masters' study doors, aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick...
...orchestra set a precedent by playing the opening work, Mozart's Symphony No. 26, in a manner which revealed careful preparation and attention to some detail. Usually the openers are shunted off to the first and last rehearsals, and sound it; this is a good tradition to break...
Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a redheaded Texan with an easy smile and casual manner, had spent more than half of his life at Harvard when he agreed, in 1949, to make the move to Northampton to become the fifth president (all of them have been males) of Smith College...
...your issue of Oct. 6, your CINEMA man-whose writings I love and esteem-errs in a manner which is natural, yet a little irritating to me and to Mr. John Huston. The story of Beat the Devil was not lolled together in Ravello. It was written as a novel by myself, and published (same title) by Lippincott in 1951. The lolling began at a lakeside in the Wicklow Mountains-that is to say, I lolled while Mr. Huston read my book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help...
...Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity and shamrock oil, and about the last of the great Irish-American city bosses in the grand, 19th century manner-a man, the author protests, who is not to be confused with ex-Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston...