Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coolidge pointed out that he did not intend to make a claim for the appointment. "I don't need the job, and the job doesn't need me," Coolidge said. "But I do think I have some legitimate grievances concerning the manner in which the affair was handled...
Douglas W. Hunt '55, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, denied yesterday that the PBH housing registry kept discriminating landlords on its list in contradiction to its declared policy. "We keep them on the list only because we are approaching the problem in a different manner, through educating them," Hunt added...
...uproar showed signs of settling at least into international perspective. British Prime Minister Eden indirectly arrayed himself alongside Dulles on the essential point: that deterrence was the policy of Britain, the U.S. and their allies. The London Daily Telegraph sharply attacked Dulles for his wording, his timing, and his manner of self-expression, "but to allow these marginal comments to provoke us into denouncing the central burden of his argument-that peace has depended in the past and still depends on American willingness to fight-is to cut off England's nose to spite Dulles' face...
Leningrad cheered Porgy and Bess (TIME, Jan. 9), but nobody could predict how Moscow, with its love of grand opera in the grand manner, would take to the jazzy American folk opera about crapshooters along Catfish Row. By opening night last week, it was plain that Muscovites were at least curious to see the first U.S. theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Tens of thousands had applied for seats. Immense crowds swarmed around the Stanislavsky Theater hoping to get a spare ticket. A lucky 1,500 Soviet bigwigs, foreign diplomats and Russian first-nighters crammed into the theater...
...Condors and Heinkels snarling out of their Norwegian airfields. The crew is fed nothing but fear, lethal cold, and the slower death of the corned-beef sandwich. On this unhappy ship all is misery; she becomes a debating society, with the crew arguing their orders and the time and manner of their death. From stoker to captain, everyone is infected with what the British call "the Nelson touch," i.e., an inspired disregard for orders. There is heroism, and men die well in these brutal waters, but the admiral cracks up and wanders crazed in his pajamas...