Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international Communism and its followers." The King paused. In his paper-white face the dark eyes seemed unnaturally large. His slight frame, draped in a rakish tan gabardine suit, was slumped under the heaviness of fatigue; he had scarcely slept in four days. Yet he talked confidently, in the manner of a man who had learned some bitter lessons of human perfidy and folly, but had found that he could make his way. That same day he had gained a historic commitment from the U.S.. and got his security forces ready for devastating street riots that might be hurled...
...upon him. Peter Kramer as Lt. Stephan Maryk is insipid, and John Dobbyn as Willie Keith is even more so, both inept and without any sense of development. Ronald Coralian, playing the prosecuter, is, like the rest of the cast, illcostumed, and lacks both in speech and manner the bearing of a military officer...
...completely detest Dave Beck's using the Fifth Amendment. However, I would rather see 100 money-mad union leaders get away with it rather than one teacher, entertainer or newspaperman scoff in the same manner when it concerns Communism...
Officially, the U.S., which does not recognize the right of diplomatic missions to offer international sanctuary in the manner practiced so widely in Latin America,* has been fearful that the Communists might try to seize the cardinal by force. Last week's feeler was welcomed in Washington as tacit recognition by the Kadar government that U.S. protection has been effectively extended to the cardinal. Unless he gets official instructions from the Vatican to ask for a safe-conduct-which seems unlikely-Cardinal Mindszenty will probably stay on in his present haven indefinitely...
...broader issues, so many Red leaders volunteered statements of policy that no man could say what manner of state the Communists would run. Chief Minister Namboodiripad proclaimed his intention of nationalizing all foreign-owned plantations ("a deliberate attempt to frighten off foreign investors and foreign aid," wailed New Delhi) and of establishing industrial "managing councils" composed of workers, union leaders and a few lonely bosses. But Kerala's new Minister of Industries blandly began trying to lure private enterprise into the state on the promise of cheap credit facilities and no strikes. Another Red leader warned that...