Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gibson's quiet humor and relaxed manner was enjoyable, but I felt that this young folksinger would be more effective in a night club than on the concert stage. The humorous, catchy folksong is Mr. Gibson's forte; he delighted his audience with "The Horse Named Bill," a nonsensical little number that has been a favorite on college campuses for generations. His recollections of Aspen and his own song "Super-skier" were delightful...
...Table." His song from the musical "Candide," Dr. Pangloss' song on "the sunny side of venereal disease," was the most entertaining moment of the evening, though most of his work was touched with humor. All his reading was much more restrained than Kunitz', suited to the more relaxed manner of his poems...
...tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers the faked letter, Berghof has a whole crew of people costumed as animals and perches them in the treetops with all manner of animal noise-makers to razz Malvolio (one of them even hits Malvolio with the contents of a water pistol...
Zachary Scott manages to convey Orsino's melancholy, but more by appearance and manner than by speech. And he has the pleasure of being wheeled about in a handsome mollusk-shell chariot. Patricia Cutts is a soft Olivia, in love with mourning and "of beauty truly blent" as the mistress of an enormous household...
Rodin could not have done it better. The bowlegged old man brooded in the grand manner, one foot up on the top step of the dugout, an elbow on a knee, a hand held up to shade the faded blue eyes peering from a wrinkled mask of despair. "Something is wrong with this team." muttered Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, "and I gotta find out what it is.' As last week began, marking the season's halfway point, Casey's noble Yankees, perennial champions, were ignobly mired in fifth place, and baseball legend has it (none too accurately...