Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Link. As the current foreign-policy debate progresses, it may seem odd that liberals-so strongly interventionist before World War II and so strongly internationalist after World War II-talk about American "self-interest" in a manner that in some quarters now means "isolationism." Yet this is only a reversion to form. With the exception of the 1930s, when distaste for the Nazis and sympathy for the Soviet Union made interventionists of the liberals, they have usually been against heavy foreign commitments...
...soon demand more widespread social and economic readjustments than King is willing to press for. If and when this happens, King will still be a "leader," but we will no longer be able to view the "movement" (or the race) as working for reform in a homogeneous and conciliatory manner...
...studied urban planning at Harvard (M.C.P., '49) after graduating from Columbia College. He has taught at Chicago, Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963. In manner Meyerson is shy and whimsical. One close friend says of him that "his favorite word is 'meld,' and his characteristic posture is melding the interests of a great variety of people...
Eliot thus became the only major poet of this century who was intensely and essentially Christian. The development of this poetic theme which seemed so sudden at the time, was accompanied by a more gradual shift in style and manner. Thus, by the time he wrote the Four Quartets, his last major poems, Eliot's style was often densely compact, unitary, monolithic even: much more self-contained except for the recurring Christian symbology. However elevated, the later poems are neither so revolutionary nor so widely pertinent. Naturally enough: the saved man speaks to a resentful audience, the tortured...
...Faculty, moreover, seems ready to use the new funds to approach problems of political, economic and social development in an interdepartmental manner. This approach will further the transformation of international relations into a full, coherent, and meaningful discipline in itself...