Word: manner
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Fairbank was apparently a little different, first because he was protected by a strong University and second because of his remarkable gift for selfcontrol. In his personal manner, and in his writing and speaking, he apparently has complete control over his emotions. They never intrude into the bright, short sentences. This could be the product of years of iron selfdiscipline and scholarly commitment, but Fairbank seems to possess a more natural gift--perspective. Behind that curious, expressionless face lies...
...security of the people of the United States is in no manner whatever endangered by the peasant people of Vietnam. The Johnson Administration can arrange a cease fire any day it chooses to accept the terms of the 1954 Geneva Agreement. If President Johnson would do this, he would raise the prestige of this nation and his own to the highest point in history. Hugh B. Hester Brigadier General U.S. Army...
...order to end "the state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate for Kerr's dismissal, made plans to demonstrate on his behalf. Campus leaders warned that the regents' action was a preliminary...
...give me a swallow to clear my throat." That is the way tales are begun in northeastern Brazil. And when the storyteller is Jorge Amado, it is well to take another swallow and settle back for an epic journey into passion, music, gambling, a bit of fighting and all manner of discursive side trips; Amado holds that there is "nothing worse than telling a story hurry-scurry, slipshod, without carefully analyzing everything...
...with the delusions and placebos of this system all his life is going to undergo some miraculous transformation and start believing in the revolution just because some nice students take away his deferment. Can we in all honesty expect him to act in any other than a hostile manner toward the Left? We must take into consideration that in a recent poll, the students of Harvard indicated that they wished to be exempted--meaning simply that they did not want to go and fight (or go to jail). And we do not believe they should--nor that anyone should...