Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew into it through the anus...
...British judge may never again place a black cap upon his bewigged head and solemnly tell a prisoner that "the sentence of this court upon you is that you suffer death in the manner authorized by the law, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" The abolition of the death penalty was carried in the House of Commons last week by a vote of 355 to 170.*The bill was a "private member's motion," introduced by Pacifist Sydney Silverman, 69, a Labor M.P. who has fought against the gallows for nearly 30 years. The Conservative Party...
...thousands of Englishmen who discovered Italy on the Grand Tour, the masters of Florence and Venice built the base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated great painting; now it excelled...
Later that same day, the store bought spot radio announcements advising customers that its suburban store and Fort Worth and Houston branches were open, and that phoned-in gift orders would be filled and wrapped in the usual distinctive N.M. manner. Sunday newspaper advertisements assured Texans that "Neiman-Marcus is ready to serve you tomorrow...
Pulled Switches. The problem has been hotly argued. Like the U.S. Constitution, West Germany's constitution bans ex post facto laws-typically, laws passed to render an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable before. The Justice Ministry holds that extension of the statute of limitations would be just such a law. Some German jurists disagree: they say that extension is perfectly legal if it covers all defendants, not merely Nazis. But the goal would still be Nazis, and the Justice Ministry sees this as unconstitutional discrimination...