Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime Commission, it must be noted, displayed little subtlety or knowledge of psychology in the manner in which it issued the final 400-page report on the subject of its three responsibilities: determining whether organized illegal gambling exists in Massachusetts, what is its scope, and what ought to be done about it. And it left the world after a four-year existence, with few friends among the public or in the state government...
Some pundits immediately pounced on these two assertions in a manner that prompted the Christian Science Monitor to observe that "many of the news reports and comments on the book kidnaped fragments from the text and lugged them off to some private chopping block where they were enthusiastically minced." At the Secretary of State's news conference, reporters promptly threw the book at Dulles...
...description of The Medium as "theatrical" has been chosen with care. Although very decidedly operatic, this work is not an opera in the grand manner. While all dialogue is sung, most of it is in prose, and the music generally serves to underline rather than to support the overall effect. This effect is a somber one, ultimately rising to tragic import...
...several years. As for the gift of the ball-point pen, I would like to make it clear to you that in Ghana, when a chief sits in state, it is considered discourteous to refuse a gift, however petty. If my father did accept this pen, in the manner in which you reported, he did so out of respect to the American Government and for no other reason...
...work, on exhibition last week at Fine Arts Associates, is a series of 33 small (7¶ in. to 18¶ in.) statuettes formed in wax and later cast in bronze. Lipchitz calls them semiautomatics: "They originate completely automatically in the blind. By manipulating my form in such a manner, a lot of images suggest themselves. Ordinarily, one image is predominant. This one I choose." Among the images are a pain-racked Mater Dolorosa, a witty, stylized Geisha, a twirling Dancer, a dauntless Rodinish woman, her hair flying, fists raised, called Defense. The lines of the figures flow freely...