Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he found that the numbers did not jibe. Yale University's School of Medicine had bought as many as 1,700 dogs for research in a single year, all from nearby towns. But these communities had never reported having disposed of so many healthy strays in this manner. Colwell went off on a hot scent that led him, with a bloodhound assist from Connecticut state police, to the biggest dognapping scandal in the state's history. Last week the first court case came...
...Shakespeare's chronicle plays, partly for the fire and dash of its impetuous Hotspur, pre-eminently for the titanic verve of its waddling Falstaff. Between the two of them - the one filled with chivalric ideals of honor, the other cynically dismissing honor as mere "air" - stand all manner of men, and of human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur's slayer and the eventual victor of Agincourt. With...
...patently new and pleasant. When all the girls in Kansas take off their clothes (there may be a metaphysical insight here, after all) Koch observes that their bodies are "almanacs to teach . . . the poet how to shape his lines. The woodsman what is lacking in the pines." All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches a perfect game, King Amaranth decides that England's girls should undrape too, and several characters turn into statues. Analyzing these events is no more profitable than dissecting a soap bubble, or trying to explain a minor character named...
...whose verbal policy is not massive retaliation but massive assault, Alexander King is startlingly wispy in physique and disarmingly gentle in manner. His droopy white mustache straggles for existence on a face that frequently crinkles with shrewd, sloe-eyed smiles. King (original name: Koenig) came to the U.S. just before World War I with his father, a research chemist, and a lovably scatterbrained mother...
...Arthur Murray Party for Bob Hope (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In the manner of a Circus Saints and Sinners meeting, an all-star goon squad gathers to "roast" Hope, celebrating his tenth year...