Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same effect is compounded by the two lead actors, Jerry Ohrbach and Jill O'Hara. Both are talented but neither is quite right. Ohrbach settles comfortably into the easy, audience-conscious manner Simon has designed for him, draws all the requisite laughs, sings at least passably on occasion, but has none of the timely flavor or the essential fascination of Jack Lemmon in the movie. Miss O'Hara has some charm and quite a voice when her range and Bacharach's coincide, but has not yet defined herself sufficiently beyond the realm of run-of-the-mill ingenues. Still less...
...third issue, the discipline of the six IDA demonstrators, had somewhat greater substance. Although most students would probably have agreed that the disruptive manner of conducting SDS demonstrations was becoming intolerable, many students were antagonized by the manner in which the "no indoor demonstration," rule was promulgated and the discipline was administered...
When he appointed Fortas to the Court, Johnson commented in his best imperial manner, "I'm sending 50,000 men to Vietnam and I'm sending you to the Supreme Court...
...manner of choosing Chief Justices defined by the Constitution has been subverted...Behind the attack [on Fortas] was hatred of the President and a desire to discipline the court...
...more in the organization-man mold than Mr. Jack. Like Straus, President Molloy joined Macy's training squad right after Harvard ('29), later became boss of Macy's fast-growing California division. Macy's new chairman, Donald Smiley, has the salesman's open manner, yet is first to admit that he is "a nonmerchant." Macy's general attorney and then treasurer before he became vice chairman, Smiley will pursue the company's already sizable expansion program, which has added 13 new stores at a cost of $90 million over the past five years...