Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This does not mean that Brown's works are meant to represent specific works of Calder or Pollock. "I am not trying to make the listener hear a mobile or visualize a Pollock painting," Brown explains. "I was inspired by the manner, the process of their way of working...
...reasons, said Nixon, "The first is that there is great disillusionment, of course, and McCarthy tells the students what they want to hear." He felt that supporting McCarthy was "a typical college student reaction" to the complex problems raised by the war. The second reason was McCarthy's "statemanlike" manner: more specifically, his appeals to youth were not made in the same "stupid and demagogic way" that Bobby Kennedy's were...
...police chief, bought a dairy farm in Missouri. He knew little about the dairy business, and besides, most of the new calves born on the farm turned out to be male. That was when he opened the shoe-repair shop. Or so Bowen says, in that aw-shucks country manner that seems to thicken when he is working on his shrewdest deals...
...Painting." Lorimer could be petty, as when he bought a story by a staffer but withheld the news from him for a few days because "he suffers so good." But he also commanded the grand manner. Recalls former Post Editor and Writer W. Thornton ("Pete") Martin: "He used to have a tailor come in and take his measurements right in the office. And he used to take a trip to Europe every year and come back loaded down with Oriental rugs, Chippendale furniture and tapestries. He'd have them all uncrated in the Post hallways for all the editors...
...painter Manfredo Borsi ordered a suit. "If you prefer," Borsi imperiously suggested, "I will pay you with one of my paintings." Sapone did not really prefer. "I had never looked at a painting in my whole life," he recalls. "I looked at women." Overwhelmed by Borsi's forceful manner, however, he reluctantly agreed...