Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigrants to describe the clerkly quality of their nonlaboring sons. Like a true narrowback, McNulty in his heart hungered for the lost village-and he found it in Third Avenue's vestiges of Irish life, in the awful cooking, the hatred of machinery, the acid yet basically gentle manner of one man to another. This last quality crops out in many stories: the querulous man who has to go into the Army without having anyone to say goodbye to; the cabby who night after night watches out for the same group of drunks; the bartender who is paternally protective...
Miss Stouffer's forte lies in color especially, which she handles in a varied yet subtle and consistent manner. Her brisk, incisive drawing seems equally personal, although there are instances in which the idiom becomes conventionalized, overwhelming rather than serving the fundamental idea. In any event, her paintings and woodcuts are all fresh, lyric and full of spirit...
James D. Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, said last night that he "would like very much" to stay on the block, but that moving away from it and back again would cause "an economic problem." "We hope that they will build in a manner so that we could move to a completed section of the building," he said. As plans now stand, this does not seem to be possible...
...Germany's Berthold Beitz, general manager of Krupp Industries, suggested that the job of economic world uplift is too big for the investors of any one country, instead proposed that investors form a multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...
...loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.), he proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that he was able to placate even the most diehard conservatives on the board and in the legislature. By the time the American Association of University Professors got ready to censure the university, he was able to declare the move "unjustified and singularly inappropriate." He angered some alumni by refusing...