Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumed paunch and twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the Aristocrat, an ex-governor and F.O. man: he gestures with the monocle, is dismayed and contented both with proper peerish disdain...
Jane Quigley, every bit as versatile as Mr. Barstow, is a quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...
First of all, let's leave ancient history out of this. In Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, the playwright is not confronting us with those noble Greek and Trojan warriors that Homer and others sang of. The proper names are retained--Priam, Hector, Aeneas, Achilles, Ulysses, and the rent--but any further resemblances are purely coincidental. Cressida does not even exist in the Illad; and the sagittarial hero-god Pandarus was not debased into a pimp until Boccaccio latched onto...
...cable it carried a "pinger," whose sound could be detected by the Chain four miles above. The interval between the pinger's sound and its reflection from the bottom told the scientists when the dredge was on the bottom and moving with its cable at a proper angle. This eliminated "kiting" (sailing above the bottom) and snarl-ups caused by letting out too much cable...
When ethical questions were put to them, Father Baumhart reports in the current Harvard Business Review, an overwhelming majority of the executives gave proper answers for themselves but, when asked if they thought the other fellow would follow the same high standards, were profoundly skeptical...