Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...
Despite his boosterish manner, Shriver is a shrewd politician. In 1957 his reputation as a businessman, tireless fund raiser and efficient president of the Chicago Board of Education resulted in a brief Sargent-for-Governor boomlet. It subsided quickly, but his friends expect another to develop-say, two years from now. "I don't have any current plan to run for office," he says, "but who knows what will happen in 1968 in Illinois?" He notes nonetheless that Governor Otto Kerner is finishing his second term, and only one man has ever run successfully for three terms in Illinois...
...oxygen tent in a hospital, festooned with tubes, watched over by bustling nurses or electronic monitors, banished from her parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician depends on a panoply of new skills, drugs and facilities that save many a patient his predecessor would have lost. The father image has been supplanted by the skilled technician whose head is far more important than his heart. Trouble is, the patient misses the heart...
...student with a self-effacing manner: "Forget about modesty; be a showoff. There has never been written a modest symphony, a humble rhapsody. You must be able to say with great feeling, 'I hate you' or 'I love you.' Once you are able to say that, you will find you can play the cello...
...conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave at all times in an "indecent manner...