Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long study at the scene of the com- poser's activities and deep research into local and personal records have resulted in an account as detailed as a novel and written in much the same manner. Kaufman was fortunate in the choice of a subject for this style of writing since his principal character fits exactly into the mould which would be chosen by a romatic author...
...17th century metaphysical; any how, he is under their influence, so potent also in the case of Mr. T. S. Eliot or Mr. Archibald MacLeish. Mr. Lehmann does not 'surprise' the reader by quick transitions from the grave to the trivial; he builds a poem often, in the manner of (say) Carew, on a single metaphor, of which the following is the best example...
...advancing society if you please, is there any logical argument why this enemy should not be removed with as little ceremony as possible? I find you offering no objections to the fact that in America the ruling class has been in the habit of executing thousands by the simple manner of keeping them without jobs and starving them slowly to death...
...Record. In the eyes of oldtime politicians Franklin Roosevelt has be witched the U. S. people with his smile, the toss of his head, the hearty frankness of his manner. These personal attributes apparently counted for more with the average citizen than did the concrete record of the President's achievements during 1934. By last week that record was still an unfinished story, with the outcome of many of his executive undertakings still dangling between success and failure. He had kept busy; he had put on a good show; he had exuded cheer and optimism; but he had decisively...
Follows a duel in the best early Fairbanks manner between O'Flynn and his sweetheart's treacherous fiance, the siege of Orange's Castle Knockmore, discovery of the fabled treasure in Castle Famine. Best tunes in the lush musical accompaniment to all these romantic doings: "Child of Erin," "The Throb of My Heart," "Lovely Lady...