Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lions & Asses. Dry and dignified in manner, Whistle Stopper Malagodi nonetheless delivers incisive assaults. Of the Communists he says: "They hold one-third of the Italian electorate prisoner in the grip of a foreign ideology. We must free them for the politics of free men." Wealthy Monarchist Achille Lauro (TIME, Dec. 30), whose campaign caravan includes two lion cubs, is dismissed by Malagodi with the private comment: "He may travel with lions, but he has asses for candidates." Some of Malagodi's sharpest blows have been struck at the Christian Democrats, whose stand on church v. state has become...
...other party in the odd, poignant relationship that is the subject of the play, Robert Jordan has less to work with. But if the author has given him little personality, Jordan has enough and to spare of his own. He takes the part in his rumpled, boyish manner, and his quiet superbness goes beautifully with Miss Wylie's flam-boyant brilliance...
...comedy: not the sort of play which gives tremendous scope for a director to exhibit his virtuosity. Jean-Claude van Itallie has not tried any tricks, but he has kept the production moving with smooth skill through John Beck's lavishly shabby set. Joseph Raposo's music borrows its manner and some of its substance from Kurt Weill, and like almost everything else about this production, it is just right...
...been brought out in recent debates, the nature of the qualifying examination has been defined in as vague a manner as possible, but must involve something beyond a consideration of the student's record. Some departments have mentioned the possibility of essays written under non-examination conditions, or "oral examination interviews...
...behavior of the two students--they were students, not townies--is, we hope, not typical. Harvard has not yet begun to form teen-age gangs after the manner of New York, but the bombing, if it was part of an organized club initiation or if it was just the brain-child of two idiots, has all the attributes of a teen-age mentality...