Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Liberace, it was manner and clothes that made the man. Playing the 20,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in 1952, he had a set of white tails made up "so they could see me in the back row." He had a little gold lame jacket added in Las Vegas and, says Liberace, "what started as a gag became a trademark...
...science is counted by its peculiar ideas, instruments, and procedures but, most importantly, by its distinctive laws and theories. Education has no such distinctive laws and theories. To be sure, educational phenomena may be studied in a scientific manner, but the current attempts to study education scientifically proceed from a wide variety of directions, and utilize a multiplicity of concepts, procedures, and research styles. It is unlikely in the extreme that they will all coalesce into, or be superseded by, a unified educational science...
...experiences and words of others, must develop his argument in a more formal way. He fails for two reasons. First, the abstractness and detachment of the essay simply do not fit a subject so intensely personal and emotionally complex. It is easy to list, in a neatly ordered manner, the "problems" faced by a white volunteer: guilt, fear, prejudice (both ways), self-doubt, etc. Such a list, however, provides about as much feel for the problems as would a similar list for the "horrors...
...matched Pius' rapid pace. Yet he also shares something of the modern world's aversion to certainty and pontification: the nuggets of assertion and advice in his own writings often seem like spiritual rafts bobbing half-hidden in a holy sea of howevers. Nonetheless, the Pauline manner is unmistakable by now. In style, it can be summed up as a search for balance and order?a goal that runs the risk of ambiguity, of settling for surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society...
Above the Clouds. Such, then, is the Pauline manner: to blunt the edge of an innovation with traditional safeguards; to give an answer that raises as many questions as it resolves. It is this seeming uncertainty that baffles and angers at least as many people as it pleases...