Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France's national basketball team. "You and I certainly look at problems in the same manner," quipped the 6-ft. 4-in. general...
Summer Home. Today, long past the time when he was a humble aspirant to an old master's throne, Ormandy has all the moves of a maestro to the manner born. He receives visitors in his Bellevue-Stratford Hotel suite (where he has lived with his second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming...
...Carre's straining for effect becomes most obvious when he writes dialogue or describes the relations between people. The early scenes seem almost cinematically brief and selective, and in the manner of a bad movie director, Le Carre tries to end most of them with a significant detail: "The Minister did not look up as they came in." "He walked slowly, like an old athlete on an old track." The portentousness is obvious, even out of context. The Spy was refreshingly pessimistic and unglamorous, but in mining the same vein further, Le Carre only comes up with heavy irony...
...descriptions of Laotian guards spitting into a cup of cold rice before giving it to the prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos by tough North Vietnamese Communists, whose presence the Pathet Lao then denied-and still...
...when they would accessible to undergraduates. Education, like science, history, and the law should, in fact, be made available the College as part of the general education of its students. No propoganda or special appeals are in point here; the presentation of educational topics in a general and scholarly manner is likely to have a long-term beneficial effect in bringing home to undergraduates the possibilities of educational study and work...