Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved with fluid grace, spoke in the soft, cultured tones of a Sacred Heart graduate, had quick, attentive eyes and a slow, demure smile. She radiated a maidenly appeal rather than sexiness, and there was the fascinating impression of a number of locked doors lying behind her reserved manner...
...beyond the familiar ground of tonality, composers have been faced with the problem of choosing a style from a large and exceedingly miscellaneous group of alternatives. These days composers can pick from a selection that ranges from modified romanticism (Poulenc) or modified Puccini (Menotti) through Stravinsky's neo-classic manner to Schoenberg or Berg or exotic explorers like Varese. Of course, a composer can scramble two, or three, or ten of these together and arrive at something unrecognizable enough to prompt the conscientious newspaper reviewer to style him "a distinctly original voice." This is not a satisfactory solution for many...
...theses were distributed among the graders in a "rather bureaucratic and impersonal manner," said one teaching fellow. In consequence, some tutors received theses in areas "where they were not terribly well prepared." He suggested holding an annual meeting at which the theses would be parceled...
Crooner Perry Como, who has made a profession of the easy manner, lifted his eyelids last week long enough to sign the most eye-popping contract in TV history: a $25 million deal with Kraft Foods for 66 one-hour NBC-TV color shows over the next two years, plus another "seven-figure" contract to serve as a Kraft publicity symbol for the next ten years. As producer of his own show, Como will pay expenses-out of the $25 million and keep what is left. As performer, he will go on collecting $1,200,000 yearly from NBC. Said...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving, thanks mostly to an intensely intelligent performance by Maria Schell...