Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreaming about just a year ago could hardly have voted any other way than Democratic in the 1958 elections. It was a U.S. of recession, rising unemployment, farm poverty, militant unionism, weakened defenses-with executive decisions dominated by Congress and civil rights questions compromised smoothly in the Lyndon Johnson manner. But the big news of politics as the fall campaign opens is that the U.S. of autumn 1958 is not quite the land of Democratic dreams. Items...
...liberal tariff and import policies for Canadian products-aluminum, wheat, lumber, newsprint, hides. The main problem is that Canada fails to reciprocate. Wrote the Toronto Telegram's Financial Editor Devon Smith: ''Ireland is another of those countries which Canada treats in as offhand a manner as Canadians claim the Americans treat ourselves...
...Cubs bought him for $15,000 and gave him what he lacked. Infielder Eddie Miksis loaned him a glove, and Coach Ray Blades bought him a book called How to Play Baseball. Banks has still never learned how to play shortstop in the manner of Honus Wagner or Marty Marion. Tired by the grind of playing day after day (he has started every game this year), Banks has trouble getting the right jump on the ball, sometimes boots the play that sets up a rally. But, better than any other shortstop in history, Ernie Banks can right the score...
Byzantine Bureaucracy. Says Moorehead about the struggles that preceded Russia's short-lived Constituent Assembly, when democracy went down to the whistles and catcalls of the Bolsheviks: "The field of action was now beginning to clarify itself somewhat in the manner of one of those Shakespearean battlefields where the opposing armies take up their positions in full view of one another, while the generals ride about from place to place making declamatory speeches...
...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...