Word: manneredness
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Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With...
Through the evening the orchestra had a mellower, thicker tone than its great U.S. colleagues. Its string section sounded as sweet and intimate as a string quartet, its winds included a solo flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality...
Where Sir George Grove in Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read...
Two lions of British letters, grand-mannered poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 67, and her ailing author brother Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell, 62, ensconced in a Manhattan hotel for the Christmas holidays, reminisced about their past troubles with readers. Sir Osbert, who once listed his recreations...
A usually mild-mannered, publicity-shunning gynecologist stepped out of character last week and lashed out at the modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust. Anthropologists and sociologists have already tackled this question as it concerns the male. But Dr. Goodrich C. Schauffler, who teaches at the University of Oregon...