Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poultry Farmer's declaring that as a publication it is competing tooth and nail with the New York Times. Categories apparently have been shuffled behind my back in a singularly shifty manner...
...recommend that the council adopt as a matter of public policy a procedure which will allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish the kinds of trust and rapport that must exist if urban renewal is to work for the citizens of Cambridge whom we serve...
Kahn then proceeds with his play. He has divided his text into twenty-one chunks. At the outset of each, one person strikes the claves and, in the manner of Brecht's "epic theatre," declaims a caption that purports to distill the ideological essence of the scene to follow. Thus we hear, for instance: "Scene 7: Siege of Harfleur; Propaganda of the Machine; The People Follow"; "Scene 11: Winter Continues; Discourses on War and Death; The Army Marches"; "Scene 15: Economic Lesson on the Battlefield"; "Scene 17: Exeter Tells the Lie of Noble Death...
...recites the long roster, name by name, a score of men gradually come on stage each wearing a ghostly white mask splotched with fresh blood. Finally the King intones the incipit of a Te Deum, and the ghostly choir picks it up in unison and, in the manner of the Living Theatre, moves down-stage to face the audience in a long row, humming and swaying from left to right--an inspired fusion of the quick and the dead. The effect of this scene is shattering and unforgettable. But, as with the traitors' pantomime, Kahn indulges himself too much...
...Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship, and faith and truth I will bear unto you to live and die against all manner of folks...