Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest Broadway show, is about to go under, after a stay of two months, because of a heavy-handed collaboration in the book department between Voltaire and Lillian Hellman (TIME, Dec. 10), but its witty score remains a triumph ? it is both melodious and satirical in a manner rarely surpassed since Offenbach...
...close does he come to that line? As a conductor, his unquestionable brilliance is sometimes obscured by his podium manner. He never uses a baton, relying instead on his highly expressive hands and indeed on his whole body. Is the music delicate, finely and rapidly interwoven? "Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every...
...manner replete...
...Post advance notice of all further nuclear tests during negotiations designed to ban nuclear bombs; once the future production stockpile is worked out, "it would then be possible, in a secure manner, to limit, and ultimately to eliminate, all nuclear test explosions...
Statesmen often act in a Machiavellian manner, but could a whole people be Machiavellian? Could Poland knowingly vote a Communist government into power, not because it likes or wants Communists but because that way it avoids trouble with the Soviet Union? This was the question some 18 million Polish voters, free from secret-police threats and reprisals for the first time in 19 years, had to answer this week...