Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billings was a tall, quiet, intensely private man whose gentle manner masked a steel will. He served as managing editor of LIFE until 1944, when, with the magazine's circulation over 4 million, he became Luce's deputy as editorial director of the four Time Inc. publications then: TIME, LIFE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and FORTUNE. Illness forced his retirement in 1955, and he returned to Redcliffe. As LIFE'S first managing editor, Billings was more responsible than anyone else for inventing the genre of photojournalism. Recalled Edward K. Thompson, managing editor of LIFE from...
American workers have rarely vented their rage on the machine in the manner of English Luddites. Nor, surprisingly, have American trade unions ever shown serious interest in redesigning jobs or in "humanizing" work. From the start, what the American worker did seek was a reduction in the hours of work...
...high-school division of labor also exists at Harvard, but not quite in the same manner. The student committees at Harvard are theoretically designed to give students some say in the decisions that affect their lives--particularly on issues that concern student housing or food services. But despite the fact that these committees do make recommendations on how the University will regulate students' lives, the old high school division of power remains--the students don't have...
...been at least partly true. It will be strange, because while at first it will seem more foreign than anything in the world, after a couple years you'll notice--on a trip home, maybe--that without even wanting to you've picked up some of the Harvard manner...
What makes Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? entertaining beyond its spirit and charm is the manner in which Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...