Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fault. The supporting male cast, however, is first-rate, especially Thomas Carlin, who gives an impersonation of a Dutchman that would make Danny Kaye proud. My only reservation is Jerry Stiller as Firk the apprentice; his performance, though funny in itself, is stylistically incongruous with the speech and manner of all the other actors...
...service after World War II, has been eyed by real-estate promoters who would like to subdivide it. Two years ago Attorney General Brownell rendered an opinion that the U.S. has legal title to Philippine lands bought from private owners; most of Fort McKinley was bought in this manner long before World War I. In the mouths of Filipino extremists, this claim to "title" became a nasty assertion of "sovereignty...
...crashed backwards off the podium in a dead faint. In the next several years he fainted so regularly on the podium that he became known throughout Italy as "The Fainting Maestro." When he consulted doctors, they could only point out what he already knew: that he lost his genial manner in the presence of music and that his nervous tension built up to a fainting spell, usually as the orchestra approached the slow movement of the symphony or concerto he was conducting...
More Matter Than Manner. Phineas Quimby, a clockmaker of Portland, Me. and a student of hypnotism and psychology, decided that a man could change his physical situation by changing his mind. New Thought was born in the 1860s when a group of devotees gathered at his feet-among them was young Mary Baker Eddy, who later went on to found Christian Science...
Though it tolerates doctors and considers Christian Science a "totalitarian Church," New Thought shares with Christian Science much matter if little manner. Some of last week's subjects: "Freedom from Disease," "A Grand Time Living." The Rev. Ervin Seale of Manhattan's Church of Truth titled his lecture "Where Is Bridey Murphy Now?" and suggested that perhaps she was "in" Hypnotist Morey Bernstein. The Rev. Sarah Solada of the First Church of Understanding in Detroit gave her audience a "treatment" for money. Instructing them to clutch a dollar bill tight while she was talking, she went...