Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zita insisted that Otto be accorded the full privileges of his rank, rose and curtsied when he entered a room, and called him "Your Imperial Highness." A thoughtful, scholarly youth, Otto studied at Belgium's Louvain University, by his serious demeanor stood off phalanxes of eligible European princesses. When one young, attractive Hungarian countess came to pay homage, Otto strolled silently with her for some minutes in his garden until he suddenly asked: "Have you ever thought how industrious ants...
...Tocqueville, who liked much of what he saw in America, described the House of Representatives as a place of "vulgar demeanor," without a single "man of celebrity." Lord Bryce complained that it made as much noise as "waves in a squall." Dickens scoffed that not even "steady, old chewers" in the House could hit a spittoon. And 19th century Americans generally referred to the House as the "Bear Garden." But the House has improved with age, writes Neil MacNeil, TIME'S chief congressional correspondent, in this entertaining account of its workings and its history...
...handling admirals, generals and politicians. He plays kind cop to McNamara's tough cop-and McNamara recognizes his value. The two have become close friends (of which McNamara, although widely respected, has few in Washington); and the Pentagon has come increasingly to realize that whatever their difference in demeanor, McNamara and Gilpatric think alike on policy matters. Gilpatric speaks and acts in McNamara's name; indeed, many Defense directives are prepared without signature blocks so that either McNamara or Gilpatric can sign. And in his formal meetings, McNamara repeatedly begins a policy statement by saying...
...spoil the script, but he does not get so close to the real Jonathan as did Rol Maxwell in the Cambridge production. Dressed in the white of innocence, Pendleton enters with a buck-teeth smile, horn-rimmed glasses, and short pants. This is all very well, but his demeanor does not convey the pent-up pressure that will later burst into deeds of violence. In this Jonathan's makeup there is too much Little Lord Fauntleroy and too little James Dean...
Monty saw no loss of confidence in Red China's leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...