Word: quainted
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...Soir they receive a pleasant and original enough treatment to justify spending a rather slow couple of hours watching them unfold. At a clean, white castle in 15th-century France, two of the devil's envoys arrive as minstrels, and the ensuing events develop this theme in a quaint and comprehensive format...
...Guatemala, when Nixon asked a market woman about her husband, she rocked him by answering, "I have no husband, just babies"; he didn't bat an eye. In El Salvador, children sang The Star-Spangled Banner in quaint English and proudly confided that they were from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School; he grinned. In Honduras hundreds of swooping bicycle riders turned the Vice President's dignified motorcade into a happily disorganized parade; he was delighted...
...canique (New York Percussion Group conducted by Carlos Surinach; Columbia). This notorious composition (written in 1924 for an abstract film) started wild fistfights at its Paris concert premiere and a quieter scandal in Manhattan. Thirty years after, its buzzing doorbells, roaring airplane propellers and four mechanical pianos seem just quaint and noisy. But the work has moments that are actually tender, and is surprisingly convincing...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
...fight for improved court systems is not one that can be-or should be-confined to the legal profession. Judge Vanderbilt candidly says that "where cures have occurred, they have generally been effected under the impetus of a popular revolt of laymen against the quaint professional notion that the courts exist primarily for the benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters...