Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Norwegians had had enough of Nikita Khrushchev even before he arrived. Television had shown the Russian Premier touring Sweden and Denmark, had reported his boorish belittling of Danish farming and his sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out...
One of the most prized fixtures in many a U.S. executive suite is a British secretary. In Manhattan, her impeccable manners, cool good looks, clipped telephone accent and considerable secretarial skills are greeted with more than ordinary hands-across-the-sea enthusiasm. Through friends or enterprising employment agencies, some 700...
THE original prospectus for TIME, written more than 40 years ago, took pains to express "a respect for the old, particularly in manners," and an "interest in the new, particularly in ideas." In an era when the pace of change puts almost overwhelming emphasis on the new, the old may...
By virtue of this head start, "Fern Sem," now the Emma Willard School, is the oldest academic girls' school in the U.S. It is still as progressively rigorous as in the days of its no-frills founder. "No deb balls for us," says Principal William Dietel, 37. "The parents...
Ungovernable Temper. It was the character of Beethoven that most fascinated Thayer, however, and he left a portrait of the man that every biographer, with varying degrees of embarrassment, has had to reckon with since. Thayer's Beethoven is a man of atrocious manners, immense ego and ungovernable temper...