Word: demeanor
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...parents and the handicap his medical condition imposes on him. D is a boisterous, and sometimes obnoxious youth who is looking for some fun (which often means trouble). Trix is the third member of this motley crew; the mini lapses of violent behavior that interrupt his calm and sophisticated demeanor give him the nickname “Schitzy...
Columnists who write for this esteemed page are only human. Not to be confused with humane, which describes our demeanor, or inhuman, which describes our prose. Human here means mortal—that is, we columnists eventually grow old with time. As the years pass, our prose starts to stumble and our foresight begins to dim. Once-sharp witticisms gradually resemble the oft-repeated yarns that put small children to sleep. Indeed, after only a few short years of writing, people refer to us as seniors. The term is fitting to both our age and our attitude. Like most senior...
...return to a paradise previously lost would make anyone happy. And Adrian Zecha is clearly content. He is sitting amid swaying coconut trees at Amanpuri on Phuket?the first resort he created in 1988. Cigar in hand, his youthful demeanor belying his 68 years, he is explaining how it felt to remove himself from Amanresorts, the luxury resort chain he founded and nurtured for more than a decade before a shareholder dispute over its parent company forced his two-year hiatus. "When you have a two-year-old child, you definitely are indispensable," says Zecha...
...with some of Washington's key regional allies such as Egypt concluding free trade agreements with Baghdad, and that salvaging an deal to tighten controls on Iraq's access to weapons is about the best Washington can hope for. After all, the success of sanctions depends less on the demeanor of Congress than on the actions of Iraq's neighbors, where the Republican hard line finds very little echo. Powell will point to the agreement by Syria's President Bashar Assad to stop paying Baghdad directly for oil pumped through his country as a sign that Saddam's neighbors...
...clear that somewhere beneath his steely demeanor, somewhere under his dark fedora and tan suit, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 enjoys the sunshine. But there is a deeper dynamic at work, one that would-be opponents ought to notice. First, Mansfield rarely volunteers opinions--they're usually sought from him. But it is his subsequent behavior that is fascinating. For you see, dear Harvey demurs. He appears to want to be loved. He doesn't retract what he has said; he merely attempts to make it as utterly innocent as possible. And he does his best...