Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wertham's subject is murder. It seems that more people are killed each year by other people than by tuberculosis. Taking murder purely as a fatal disease, Dr. Wertham examines the role of psychiatry in homicide. He connects the two in the following manner: "Murder grows from negative emotions, from fear and hatred, from anxiety and anger, from frustration and desperation, and resentment. The science of emotions is psychiatry...
...feel sure Noah constructed the Ark in this manner. Unfortunately, the artist did not. I think we should be as nearly exact as possible in such matters...
Georgia-born Reporter Johnson, 44, whose drawl and easygoing manner hide a bulldog tenacity, was neither a crime specialist nor an I-cover-the-waterfront expert when he started. He was a general-assignment man who had served the Sun for 20 years, on everything from the burning of the Morro Castle to the storming of Okinawa. In a 1946 series on hijacking, he had picked up some waterfront contacts. Using them, he started his digging into waterfront crime...
When Munch arrives here next fail, Bostonians will meet a distinguished-looking man of great personal charm and sociability. His success with the all-important ladies around an orchestra seems assured. Although his spoken English is at the moment extremely tentative, his French manner more than makes up for it. (In France, affectionate females dubbed him "le beau Charles," and from all signs, the Boston press is not going to let him forget...
...story moves rapidly, by short scenes; the scenes rapidly, by short speeches; the speeches are introduced, as in a play, by the name of the character, followed by a word or two indicating his manner. Explanatory passages are short. Such methods will annoy some readers, who will feel that they are not getting a book, but only the outline of one. In a sense, they will be right. The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones...