Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewer of my novel The Smile on the Face of the Lion [Feb. 12] writes that "[the author] seems to have derived his literary manner in equal measure from Marcel Proust, Ian Fleming, Bernard Shaw and Michelangelo Antonioni." I have read the regular amount of Proust, very little Shaw, and no Fleming-though I am planning to. As for Antonioni, the really relevant thing we have in common is, of course, optimism (i.e., the awareness that making films, writing novels, etc., are the ultimately worthwhile pursuits...
Hoping to Lead. In his calm, professorial, yet somehow messianic manner, Frei has gone over all the programs once more during the election campaign. He has held rallies up and down the 2,600-mile length of his country and spoken time after time over radio and TV. Though his Christian Democrats face the vote-splitting opposition of eleven other parties, they are still expected to win 56 to 60 Assembly seats and pick up two Senate seats for a total of eleven...
Exhibition participants, who examined and ponderously commented on all manner of comic-strip techniques, included an assortment of professors, movie directors, publishers, and three imported American comic-strip writers: Al Capp (Li'I Abner), Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake), Lee Falk (Mandrake, the Magician). Most of the participants seemed thoroughly convinced that significant trends can be discerned in the way Li'l Abner runs from girls or scratches his head...
...Faculty and the executive committee would lead it out of the wilderness. Special benefits were promised to HDC members. The Faculty Committee, it was announced, would grant the club the proceeds from a night's performance of a mainstage production, "when necessary," to replenish the club's treasury. All manner of things would be well...
...voice--slow, carefully articulate in the manner of a lecturer--slowed even further as he shifted from the Institute's personnel to its subject matter. "The idea is to get academics to study governing. You have some things to offer them in an Institute like this--access, for instance. One of the reasons academic political science doesn't often charge into problems of actual operations and policy is that the executive departments have slid out of sight in the last 20 years. You'd have to pry some doors open, but if you did, you could get an infinite amount...