Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Decent Manner...
...sympathetic toward the D. A. R. in most matters, but I feel that in this case they have acted in the only decent manner possible. After all, it is better to pique Mrs. Roosevelt than to insult the entire white population of a big city...
...that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis in truth whatsoever and was never intended...
...teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard and at many other colleges. It is the methods of teaching that must be changed, not the subjects themselves...
...Arts Theatre, and no one should miss it, will realize that Art with a capital A has created this picture. Its photography is scusitive and interprets as well as records. The actors are particularly convincing in their parts and benefit from the absence of love glorified in the Hollywood manner. Most important of all, if has that rare quality of pace which makes detail a powerful ally of action...