Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After lunch (1 to 2:30) De Gaulle returns to his office, does paperwork steadily until 8. then adjourns for dinner and a quiet evening with his wife. Determined to avoid the nervous strain that wore 25 Ibs. off one of his predecessors, he makes it a rule that he is not to be disturbed in the evening except for a grave emergency. So far there has been no emergency his staff considered that grave...
...United States of America versus Bernard Goldfine," droned the clerk in a Washington Federal Court. "You are charged with contempt of Congress. How do you wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions...
...Manhattan professional workers and exurbanite brokers and industrialists, the symptoms may be nothing more pronounced than an exaggeration of the normal routine. Wall Street and Madison Avenue, he believes, require compulsive characteristics for success. The man who succeeds in these fields, becoming a slave to routine and conformity, gets nervous when the daily cycle is broken-which explains why he drinks so much on Sundays and holidays...
...back along with somebody else, Richard Dozier, who had Miss Tarrant, lost her to Swan, took her away again, then got her back along with somebody else, Swan, etc. Dozier, who seems to have had less acting experience than the other two, is loud at times, a bit nervous, but on the whole satisfactory in the part. The other majhor role is taken by Robert Schwartz, a rich and unifluential art dealer who marries Miss tarrant. He has an unfortune muatache and, did space permit, would have the same permit, would hava the same things said about him as were...
Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...