Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stalin is no theorist of communism, he was never a dreamer or a romantic hero. He is a cold-blooded man of deeds, uneducated in manner, and disliked by the European communists. He never considers anything which does not concern the near future...
...Significance. In consciously picturesque manner, Author Prezzolini quickens hazy impressions of the man Machiavelli, details a rather commonplace life in a rich setting of mediaeval Florence, declares nothing too trivial to report of so great a man. But the essence of that greatness, to wit, the political theory which influenced Napoleon, Mussolini, remains unanalyzed but for the textbook generalities...
...religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...
...pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue paper and magic lanterns in a manner once realistic but now absurd...
Dutch detectives lay on their bellies in advantageous spots within the Amsterdam stadium. They were equipped with field glasses with which they surveyed the crowd. In this manner they were able to spot and seize some 2,000 cameras, thereby protecting the Olympic photographic monopoly which had been sold to one firm...