Word: schoolmasterish
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...threats of violence, the election does not seem to be in serious jeopardy. As the 75- year-old leader of the A.N.C. sped from stadium to stadium in his cream- colored Mercedes, he gave clenched-fist salutes and spoke solemnly to the faithful. His tones were alternately regal and schoolmasterish, his jokes slow to develop, and much of his dry but earnest text came straight out of a yellow-and-white binder labeled BRIEFING NOTES -- CONFIDENTIAL...
...surprises last week when the South African State President addressed the opening session of Parliament. Walking behind the sergeant at arms carrying the ceremonial mace, Botha entered the whites-only House of Assembly in Cape Town and faced the newly elected members sitting on green leather benches. In his schoolmasterish, staccato delivery, he told them that his government stood firmly on the principle of politics by segregated racial groups and that those who disapproved would not be permitted to use violence or otherwise break the law. Declared Botha: "The fact that certain legal arrangements may not be acceptable to some...
That was all he needed. In a quick, impassioned speech far different from his dry, schoolmasterish recitations, Mollet said: "Nasser has lost. What has become of the bogus hero now that his army has refused to fight for him?" Without stopping to answer he rushed on to the new questions that Anglo-French aggression had created: "The repercussions of the measures we took have revealed the real situation in the Near East, the ambitions of the Soviet Union. They have made evident the absolute necessity for the three great Western powers to coordinate their policy." Next day Premier Mollet accepted...
...Schoolmasterish Socialist Guy Mollet has lasted for six months as Premier of France because no one else wants the job of antagonizing the left by fighting the war in Algeria, and antagonizing left, right and center by demanding higher taxes to finance it. Last week Guy Mollet found a way to make some mileage out of his predicament...
...ready to pass judgment on the men whom Dwight Eisenhower had nominated to replace the present Joint Chiefs of Staff. Across the table, nervously awaiting their ordeal by interrogation, sat the four beribboned nominees (see cut)-prospective Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur Radford, the Navy's schoolmasterish-looking Admiral Robert Carney, the Air Force's handsome, white-maned General Nathan Twining and the Army's General Matthew Ridgway, stiffly erect in paratroop boots...