Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might assume from the cover illustration that Americans have one manner of dress, one national origin, one race and one gender...
...spent time in the gay and lesbian rights movement will know that destroyed flyers and ignorant taunts are par for the course. Yet it is nevertheless somewhat amazing that Harvard Students, many of whom arrive fresh from superior early education and intelligent, liberal parents, would respond in the crude manner of the residents of Stoughton Hall. Likewise, it is amazing that Cambridge, the center, some say, of liberal education and general enlightment should respond with the tearing down of signs...
...young lovers in the play pale beside their counterparts in the earlier romances. Anne Kerry's unnaturally studied elocution and rather monotonous vocal timbre do not help Miranda. As her suitor Ferdinand (whom Prospero tests in too testy a manner), Peter Webster is handsome enough and speaks acceptably, save for a couple of misplaced accents...
...week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
Perceived in that manner, the new pessimism seems only the old optimism turned upside down. Surely a better way to explain the neoconservatives' views is not to deal with their motives but to measure their reasons for turning right against the political and social reality that Americans have been confronting for the past 15 years. Steinfels' provocative volume might have been better served by getting down to more tough cases. He repeatedly reprimands his subjects for not blaming society's weaknesses (self-indulgence and galloping consumerism, for instance) on the free-enterprise system. He might have pursued...