Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...participation in the late unpleasantness was the result of a profound misconception as to the manner in which the meeting would be conducted. We were mistaken and admittedly naive in thinking that the Wollacitea would not utilize it for political purposes. It was a mistake of strategy, not of principle...
...devote the rest of the program to compositions by Randall Thompson '20. Granting Randall Thompson the right to performances by the Glee Club of his alma mater, one still wonders why such performances might not have been saved for some other occasion and "L'Allegro" given in a manner which did not make its music overshortened and its intense Miltonian text compressed out of meaning...
...Actor of Olympian Manner. Thus last week Douglas MacArthur strode on to the U.S. presidential-election stage. The audience perked up immediately. Here, among characters whose performances were greying with familiarity, was an actor of Olympian manner and delivery, a man to put emotion into the show. General MacArthur was a candidate to arouse either intense hostility or deep admiration. Ever since the early days of the Pacific war, anti-MacArthur feeling (e.g., "Dugout Doug") has been whipped up by a strange medley ranging from Navy men to Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds...
...beautiful, black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire, Leonora Carrington was born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
...Mexico's Protestant Governor Thomas J. Mabry deplored efforts "to stir up religious misunderstanding." From the state's Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of church and state. It was only through a high sense of duty of her mission to promote the welfare of human society that the Church permitted itself to accept the office of teacher in the public schools. The Church desires only that justice be done and good will preserved...