Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirited young towhead with lively blue eyes and a raucous manner. Philip spent his earliest years in a Paris crowded to the rafters with the relics of outmoded monarchies. Years later, as a dashing young British naval lieutenant in Mel bourne. Australia, he described himself good-humoredly as "a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction." But as a small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece...
offended dignity or righteous indignation as though to the manner born...
...clue, which most critics seized on, is that Soviet art still stands where Western European art was at the turn of the century. Hints have reached the outside that younger Moscow artists are painting clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...
...most engaging performance in the film is contributed by the British actor Nigel Patrick. He plays the part of a dishonest college professor in the best English grand manner and delivers his silly lines with appropriate disdain...
William M. Rand '09, chairman of the fund, said last night that the fund would operate in a relatively quiet manner until the Program for Harvard College has completed most of its publicity work. He emphasized that the Medical Center Fund must be careful to avoid becoming confused with the $82.5 million drive for the College...