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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the classroom is the place to expose the student to conventional language, the teacher should not rob the black student of his right to articulate in a manner in which he is most able to express himself. We will lose a culture if we do this -"and I ain't just sellin' wolf tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Connally is a restless man, quick to size up a situation and quick to grow bored with it. He is compulsive and meticulous, prone to polish his shiny shoes with a tissue or to straighten pictures on the wall. Despite an easy and cordial manner, he has a strong sense of privacy, always keeping a certain distance. "I pick my friends carefully," he says, "watching them for a long time before I commit. I'm aloof, I know that. I have very few close friends." Connally's temper is sharp, his sense of loyalty demanding. He has barely spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status, pay and dance roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Exit Stage Left | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...stern-wheel steamer fitted out with Tiffany lamps and polished hardwood floors to remind tourists of the riverboats of Mark Twain's day.* Its progress down the river was a water-borne version of the whistle-stop tour of fond memory (to politicians anyway). The President's manner was a throwback to the campaigner's style of 1976, as he worked some of the same territory-notably Iowa, where his earlier triumph in district caucuses gave the first hint that he would have to be taken seriously as a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cruisin' Down the River | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...comedy about the chaos and confusion that occur when two families who don't know each other and who have, to say the least, conflicting values, meet for dinner. Their aim is to cooperate in a civilized manner in the marriage of their only children. The girl's father is a French politician noted for his devotion to an organization known as the Union of Moral Order. It is supposed to rescue traditional standards from their assault by wayward modernism. The boy's father (Ugo Tognazzi) is a homosexual. But not just any ordinary homosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gay Birds | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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