Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tammy Grimes's Cyrenne is a perkily perfect farceuse, a bedroom imp continually assuming antic positions with dry-witted composure. Edward Woodward's Percy is a plebeian prince of pathos. Under his toothbrush mustache lurks a toothy nervous tic of a grin with which he commits endless facial suicides of self-doubt. He is as simple as the wooden rattle (a soccer-game noisemaker) that he carries in his hand. A mere kiss from Cyrenne makes him act like a porpoise with convulsions...
...quite as excellent as these two consummate comics. Debbie Trowbridge is a very appealing Amy. Possibly a bit nervous on opening night, the Newton High School junior had a little trouble carrying her songs, though her dancing was the best in the show. Like Breyer, she used her face and body effectively and was adorable as a fresh innocent young girl ecstatic in her first romance...
...moans of Air Force experts who felt they had been cruelly treated by the subcommittee's staff. The memo complained that staff interrogators' "oral abuse . . . harsh language . . . threats . . . rapid-fire questions . . . emotional rantings" had so unnerved the doughty men of the Pentagon that one collapsed from "nervous exhaustion and recurring ulcer" and two more came down with "deep fatigue...
...this mercantile theory led to absurdities when applied to Ireland's pre-mercantile economy. "The fanatical faith ... in the operation of natural causes," says Woodham-Smith, "was carried to such a length that in the midst of one of the major famines of history, the government was perpetually nervous of being too good to Ireland and of corrupting the Irish people by kindness, and so stifling the virtues of self-reliance and industry." As applied by bumbling bureaucrats, the doctrine meant that food (Indian corn mostly) should only be distributed by private agencies. Private traders (though few existed) should...
Matson still has its troubles. Despite hoopla promotion, its two Honolulu-bound passenger liners lost $2,200,000 last year. Now the Lurline is down with a nervous turbine. Matson would like to retire her, or to shift her or her sister, the Matsonia, away from Hawaii to the subsidized South Seas run. At a price of $1,500,000 in wage increases this year, Matson has bought labor peace at least through mid-1964. President Powell is wary of pushing the unions too hard with automation plans, and he does not believe in bragging too much about the future...