Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched on the edge of a rocking chair, with one ankle propped on a footstool, Lyndon Johnson twirled a pair of glasses and toyed with a Vicks inhaler. Nagged by newsmen, the President had agreed to talk-in a manner of speaking-with the press. Highlights...
...darkling world of Depression England, he came to the British throne on Jan. 20, 1936 trailing a special kind of glory. World War I and service in France had given the winsome Edward a rare chance as Prince of Wales to mingle with all manner of his future subjects - and they with him. After the war, he traveled the world on a series of triumphal grand tours from Africa to India to the U.S. and New Zealand - representing his father, who ruled the mightiest empire ever assembled...
...motive, like his private manner, is straightforward. Vaughn indulges a long standing, intellectual concern for current affairs. "It's a matter of social consciousness," he says. "After a year's worth of research on Vietnam, I decided that there was no justification for our involvement there. I had gathered all his knowledge. I had to make use of it. And I was energized by the insanity of this policy of madness, by this Administration's distortion of history...
...does not enjoy the prospect. "I abhor giving speeches, I detest shaking hands, I detest in the most abominable manner signing autographs." And those babies, those terrible, drooling babies. But Vaughn wants to help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
Some readers will be offended by the highly explicit manner in which Author Lentz describes the rude indignities heaped on the ignorant Negro troops by their white superiors, or the meanness shown by Confederate recruiters as they drag 16-year-old boys away from their homes to fight and die. There is reason to believe, however, that Lentz tells...