Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...
...forces of Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy. Former Governor Buford Ellington, 59, a friend of the President's who resigned in January as director of the Office of Emergency Planning, faced wealthy Nashville Lawyer John Jay Hooker Jr., 35, whose style is Kennedy with a drawl, a manner he acquired from Bobby and the late President. While Ellington stressed his experience, Hooker would intone, his right hand chopping the air: "I want every man, woman and child to pass the word that a new day has dawned for Tennessee...
...Scenarists Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal...
Minorities continued to be an issue of some embarrassment as the Iranian representative at the seminar, after alluding to the magnificent manner in "which Persia had treated her minorities for centuries was asked about the treatment the Bahai's had recently received. The explanation was that this was a political question which did not indicate that Iran had difficulty integrating its minorities...
Radcliffe social rules have been compromised in so condescending a manner that it would appear unbecoming a Summer School by the name of Harvard. As it now stands, the rigid philosophy of the Summer School negates the sense of responsibility that Radcliffe encourages in its students, and deprives Harvard of introducing a wide range of girls to the opportunity of budgeting their own freedom...