Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's new Colonial Secretary. For many years Mr. Macleod was a member of England's No. 1 bridge team, helping it garner worldwide prestige in international matches, and he still ranks amongst the world's top 20 or so bridge players. His always quiet, unassuming demeanor beclouds the brilliance of his intellect...
...lawyers' groups even insists that he really wants to get a law degree. It seems a lot of unnecessary effort. According to the script, Perry always wins, and he does not need legal knowledge so much as a passion for digging up evidence and that scowling aggressive courtroom demeanor that eventually forces a confession on the witness stand. Like Gardner, Burr feels that the show is brightened with moral uplift-the murders are almost always offstage and the girls are not overly shady Perry's legman is Paul Drake, a suave, civilized type played by Bill Hopper, Columnist...
...stormy story of Josiah Quincy and his relation to Harvard is one of a man who staunchly believed in an outworn heritage and tried to impose it upon unwilling students. Two antagonistic forces provided the drama of his regime: the carefree attitude of students and the rigid demeanor of a president who sought to mold his undergraduates according to his strict canons of respectability...
...Uncle (Continental). Jacques Tati is a French comedian whose big feet, small head, great height and bolted rigidity invest him, as he jerks and jolts and fidgets through his films, with the marvelously absurd demeanor of an Eiffel Tower out for a Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used...
Back at the Annex, however, angry words are being spilled over bowls of dull pineapple chunks. The Radcliffe honor system, about the only virtuous thing left in the world these days, is seen doomed; and kuties who cultivate the seedy demeanor are complaining that now they will have to dress-up when they take integrated finals...