Word: staring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...' If, while dining at a friend's house you wish more dessert, merely stare at your empty plate until someone catches on. DO NOT say, 'How about seconds on the slop?' " Author McMillan refrains from printing "Personal Manners" instructions on addressing live young white women...
Sittin' on the stones of Rome Make me wanna say I'm home People everywhere Stop and sit and stare Make my trumpet want to blare...
Anyone could have seen it coming. No man could stare so intently at the world and himself and his fellow-men for long and not be shattered by the experience...
...drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...
...audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care to see a stage filled with Luise Rainers, all going at once; it would be overwhelming. But the one we have with us now is most welcome and, I repeat, nothing less...