Word: manley
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...outlook didn't get any less murky after Senate majority leader Harry Reid met on July 8 with key Republicans. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said his boss - who the day before conveyed to Baucus he would have trouble getting his fellow Democrats to vote for taxing health benefits - told the Republicans that the time for posturing was over. It was now time, he stressed, to make clear whether they intended to be part of the process of writing a bill or simply oppose it. "The message was, 'Are you in or are you out?' " Manley said. But where Reid...
...seat Franken provisionally no matter the outcome of the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision, a move that would likely provoke a GOP filibuster. Reid thus far has taken a wait-and-see approach, though his patience is wearing thin. "The time for do-overs is over," says Jim Manley, a Reid senior adviser. "Now is the time - now more than ever - for Norm Coleman and Washington Republicans to stop once and for all their ongoing effort to block President Obama's agenda...
...could be better than that?” Wright is fascinated by the sensations conveyed by words, and these mentions to outside works help anchor poems that may otherwise be too abstract to a world the reader knows.One of the many references made throughout these poems is to Gerald Manley Hopkins, the 19th-century British poet and Jesuit Priest. Hopkins himself struggled to understand the world and did so by finding God behind the exquisite beauty he saw in nature. Wright’s poems find beauty as well, but his world view is much more nebulous than that...
...Third, an overly scientific approach to politics makes even the most colorful characters appear gray. Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills was an alcoholic who cavorted with an Argentinean stripper—you couldn’t make him boring. Yet, John Manley comes close in his research, outlining the theory behind “Congressional influence” instead of letting Mills illustrate it: “When one thinks about power between A and B there is a tendency to view the relationship as unidirectional,” Manley intones. “With influence...
...overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty”: “Inside, tiny sparkling / mineral, gypsum flowers, / lettuce and coral, shy trident / bats, fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection, ensures that these...