Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graceful goodbye is not one of Lyndon Johnson's fortes. In the past three years, several dozen of his top aides and administrators-including such onetime prodigies and proteges as Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti, Robert McNamara and Gardner Ackley-have resigned or been reassigned. And often the manner of their going has left an aftertaste of malice and misunderstanding...
...Toronto Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, 32, a Japanese and the only Oriental besides Mehta to flourish on Western podiums, is no less a dynamic charmer than Mehta. A favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...
Tonu Kalam played the Beethoven First Concerto--in a manner that suggested he had better things to do. A difficult work to put across, the Beethoven relies on classical structure and logic rather than flashy passage-work and sweeping melodies. Delicacy and extreme sensitivity are a must, and Kalam revealed neither. Without exception, his phrases were rushed, brusque, and superficial...
...that three out of four respondents described the war in Vietnam as a civil war and said that the U.S. commitment was not in the best interests of the South Vietnamese. The referendum also found that 83 per cent of the Harvard students polled did not approve of the manner in which President Johnson was handling the conflict in Vietnam...
...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...