Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward particular campus issues, a growing impatience with the Vietnam War is its raison d'etre. Strong student commitment against the war effort has spiraled, increasing by more than one-third in the last year. In fact, student criticism and military escalation seem to be increasing in a dialectic manner...
Satan seizes the Master's manuscript and, in the Communist manner, proceeds to rewrite history. He allows the Biblical Pilate the satisfaction of killing Judas, and the further mercy of believing that the Crucifixion never took place at all. Thus does the Devil bless mankind by giving it a comfortable lie by which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows...
Author Epstein, whose 1964 book Leah was a controlled whisper of a novel, is one of those rarities in American letters-the completely rounded writer, capable of handling the counterpoint that this theme necessitates. If his method is kitchen realism (down to the whirring refrigerator), his manner is as fine as the tinkle of dining room crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work...
...cabbie who took me and four other marchers to the Lincoln Memorial questioned us in a non-commital manner about the planned activities for the day. But when we reached the Memorial, his neutrality disappeared and he tripled the fare. This kind of harrassment was reported by many of the marchers who had run into difficulties getting to Washington. Thousands of New Yorkers never made it because their chartered buses did not appear. Some bus drivers, half way to Washington, would find a pretext for delaying the trip--one of them actually turned around in the middle of New Jersey...
Baird stutters and often acts defensively on a rostrum, he is emotional and self-defensive on a radio interview, and he strikes many Harvard students as churlish. Baird knows this. Despite his manner, it's hard not to admire what Baird has done and what he hopes to do. At one point, he handed me a letter from a poor mother in Rochester who had just learned of her daughter's pregnancy...