Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time I insisted that no faculty member should be coerced in any way into supporting or rejecting such a motion if he did not choose to express his attitude on the War in this manner. Indeed I had suggested that a prior vote might be taken on the appropriateness of considering this issue. On Thursday I was asked to join a group of about 20 in discussing ways of permitting faculty members who did not wish to participate in such a vote to do so and I agreed. Since then, however, I have had no contact with such...
...Here Comes the Sun), it opens in Because with a childlike vista of the world, intoned by the group in their best breathy choirboy manner, and filled with an image of wind and blue sky that "makes me cry." Then come first ineffectual gropings of love followed by loneliness and frustration (You Never Give Me Your Money). In The End, a final note of acceptance of life's burdens is sealed with an affirmation: "The love you take is equal to the love you make." To avoid too much of an amen quality, the side concludes with a brief...
...likes nearly all of Stanley Kubrick's movies. Kubrick, like Downey, never travels in airplanes and does not believe in order. In Space Odyssey, where a cool-calm computer turns into a cool-calm homicidal maniac, Kubrick pulls the rug out from under seemingly sound systems in the same manner as Downey does in Swope. And the people who called 2001 plotless and pointless are bound to say the same thing about Downey's film...
...party to the hearing should conduct himself in a manner disruptive of the hearing, the hearing panel shall be authorized to exclude him and to proceed with the hearing as if he had failed to appear...
...timing is not always as good as it is in, say, Reasons of Health, where a character who is as sound and as stupid as a melon is kept in expensive quarantine in Teheran by an Iranian con man posing as a health official. Jacobs is all surface manner, often on the verge of lapsing into mannerism. Sentimental background music swells too resoundingly over some of his wry endings. Rarely touching the deeper implications of his themes, perhaps for fear of losing the rhythm of his routines, he often fails to provide enough serious relief to all the comedy...