Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heston, whose movie career has consisted mostly of impersonating Great Heroes of History (Moses, Michelangelo, Ben-Hur), plays Gordon with a swaggering virility complicated by moments of fierce introspection. At times, though, his crisp British officer's manner lapses into a fair imitation of Jack Benny, as when he stands on the battlements with dervishes tumbling in on all sides and stiffly observes: "Well! Here we are!" By contrast, Olivier's Mahdi is a small masterpiece of single-minded religious insanity-the lambent black eyes never blinking, the measured voice conjuring up holy terrors from his private heart...
...asked if he operated the passenger trains of his New York Central & Hudson River Railroad for profit or for public service. "The public be damned!" was his immortal reply. "We run them because we have to. They don't pay." The modern New York Central has changed its manner, if not its mind. Along with the Central's Twentieth Century and New York-Detroit Wolverine, the venerable Spirit of St. Louis may also be eliminated if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the request of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is now more or less set to merge with...
Anything Can Be True. Barth's parable is something like Dante's, a pilgrimage within an invented cosmology. Here and there his prose matches the cool, deadly manner of Swift in dealing in an offhand way with the totally outrageous. He is as gamy as Swift; there are some campus orgies, and sex is kid's play to Goat-Boy. Like Swift, who satirized the casus belli between Britain and France as a dispute between Bigendians and Littlendians, Barth parodies today's split between the technologically similar but ideologically dissimilar East and West. Yet his prime...
Like many another U.S. college campus, Mississippi State University in Starkville has long had its own private parking regulations. The school's uniformed patrolmen, in the manner of state or city cops, ticketed violators, who then paid their fines to university authorities. Not any longer. Thanks to a student-inspired lawsuit that went all the way to a federal district court, the only way that illegal parkers can now be prosecuted is through regularly constituted courts...
...kinetic dynamism by exhibiting it on a motor-driven turntable. This would no doubt have pleased Duchamp-Villon. "The power of the machine imposes itself on us," he wrote in 1913, "and we can no longer even conceive of humans without it. We are shaken in a strange manner by the rapid friction of beings and things, and we become accustomed to perceive the forces of beings through the very forces enslaved by them." The machinery of war captured the artist. In 1918, he died in a military hospital of blood poisoning contracted in the trenches...