Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remembered Suspicion. In the time-honored manner of fictional detectives, Sergeant Walters filed away his suspicions for future reference, finished his hitch in the army, and eventually joined the London police force. Early last summer, he learned that Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne and the widow Watters had been married, seven months after Waiters' death. His suspicions were re-aroused; he took them over to army intelligence...
...willingness to spend long hours gliding around the Senate, from chamber to cloakroom to corridor, bringing men of widely varying beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
...henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...suppose TIME thinks it bright and sophisticated to write up a crime story in the smug manner . . . of the life and death of Barbara Graham [June 13] . . . If we (society in general) refuse to interest ourselves in the lives of maltreated and disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison...
...hearty ditto to all you have to say about Dylan Thomas [May 30], but I am amazed, confused, and decidedly annoyed at the offhand manner in which you have dealt with Robert Frost . . . Did you seek to vault Thomas even higher in the literary castes by forcing Frost nearly out of the picture ? . . . Perhaps I misunderstood; I certainly hope...