Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that those who vote for Nixon and the Republican Party "ought to go to hell." Kennedy replied lightheartedly: "I really do not think there is anything that I can say to President Truman that is going to cause him, at the age of 76, to change his particular speaking manner. Perhaps Mrs. Truman can, but I do not think...
...curiously. Ambitious people lust after it. To be an anchor man is to be sought after by hostesses and courted with wary deference by politicians; to cause a stir in restaurants; to be highly visible and highly paid. The nice-guy qualities needed-a pleasing presence, articulate spontaneity, neutral manner-seem easily imitable but are not. Each year local television stations clone platoons of handsomely competent news readers, some of whom are expensively promoted to the big time but do not make it. They do all right as long as they just read, but when forced to describe an event...
...tribe of Sioux. The operative word here is blood. Morgan, an English lord on tour of the U.S. in the early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by his pectorals. Manhood through pain and all that. The Sioux apparently set great store by such things...
When they got hold of a party of travelers, they often moved in their company several days, using all manner of arts to win their friendship. At last when this was accomplished, the real business began. The travelers were invited to sit . . . unconscious of the death-angels at their backs. -Mark Twain on Thuggee murders in Following the Equator...
...Geoffrey Wolff reports in this thoughtful and very readable biography, Crosby, who was 31, had been promising for years to commit suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...