Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard M. Nixon's noisy exit from elective politics in 1962 was a classic example of gracelessness, his re-entry last week was the very model of dignified restraint. In fact, about the only surprise in his announcement that he was a candidate for President was its manner...
Much in the manner of Charles de Gaulle listening to Britain's latest bid for Common Market membership, Congressman Wilbur Mills's Ways and Means Committee last week heard again the Johnson Administration's arguments for a 10% income tax surcharge. The answer, predictably...
Harvard students should not be too proud. They have us so well trained that even when we see all the ideals we are taught to respect and cherish broken and flaunted in our faces in our own backyard, we don't act. I refer to the manner in which Cambridge and Boston police have managed to arrest 32 people for selling Avatar without so much as a whimper from the Harvard community. What were they arrested for? For not having a peddling permit? But didn't I hear that they had tried to obtain the permits...
President Johnson is as ebullient in manner as he is expansive in vision. It was no doubt a difficult exercise for him to stand before Congress and deliver a report card on the nation's past performance and future prospects that was somber in tone and spare in content...
Australian-born Zoe Caldwell, who was awarded a Tony for her performance in Slapstick Tragedy, camouflages the plight of a play that has said its all in the first 20 minutes by resolute diversions of voice, manner and meticulous comic timing. Unfortunately, she would rather see through, than be, Miss Brodie. She does not trust the role enough and kids it in a slyly satirical put-on instead of letting herself be consumed by it. If she had created a warped, vulnerable, fitfully valiant and perpetually self-deluded human being, playgoers might have laughed with Miss Jean Brodie...