Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with a great deal of satisfaction the article on the Supreme Court of California [Jan. 21]. I have not always agreed with all of the decisions of the court, but I have always admired the aggressive manner in which it has constantly striven to keep our law in tune with modern life. It is a source of deep pride to me that I have been privileged to appoint six of the seven members of the court...
David Henry, 60, Illinois. A stiff individualist (he insists on spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
...group that "the investigating operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee should be upset." He noted that the absence of any restrictions in the HUAC charter enables the committee to study "all un-American propaganda--whatever that may be" and leads to what he termed an "exuberantly irresponsible manner of investigation...
Neustadt completed "Organizing the Transition" by September 15. Three days later Jackson took him out to Georgetown to meet Kennedy. Kennedy, sitting in his garden, flipped through the twenty pages of the memorandum in his usual manner. He liked it at once, and it is easy to see why. The presentation was crisp and methodical with a numbered list of specific problems and actions. It began by questioning campaign talk about "another Hundred Days" -- a warning which must have inspired Kennedy, embarrassed by rhetorical excess, with confidence in the sobriety of the memorandum's author. It constantly stressed the importance...
...Patrick's Day 40 years ago, Michael Joseph Quill, late of County Kerry and the Irish Republican Army, landed at Ellis Island. He had flipped a coin, it was said, to decide between New York and Melbourne, and New York won-in a manner of speaking...