Word: manner
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...University Library Council, the senior forum for discussion of library policy and affairs. His efforts have been largely successful; the College system adds another library to its ranks each year. Martin says Bryant has succeeded in relating the library to the Faculty and campus research institutes "in an unparalleled manner. He brings to the University an identity and a sense of awareness," Martin adds. "But most of all, he has an understanding of cooperation and coordination--he was a unifying element." Staff members from secretaries in the personnel office to full-fledged branch librarians echo Martin's praise...
...society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them, Heartbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Heartbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie and Chekhov...
...independence in the international scene. Just as Mexico is "in the grips of the beak of the U.S. and Russia", Maldonado is manipulated by absent foreign officials. Oil, the "hydra head of our passions," forces Mexico, the U.S. and the Arab world to assume different alliances in the same manner that Maldonado constantly readjusts his relations with other characters...
This is not, I hasten to add, because I am a foreign student. With recruitment of American students in a covert manner, the moral and academic dangers are either insignificant or outweighed by the necessities of intelligence. This is not the case with foreign students...
...dramatic level Old Boyfriends works. We care about Diane, mostly because Shire is capable of engendering a great deal of sympathetic concern; there is intelligence and vulnerability in her every expression. But there are jarring contradictions in this movie. The worst lies in the sweetness of Shire's manner and the brutal actions required of her by a confused script. The Belushi character perhaps deserves what happens to him, but the sequence is so farcically overstated that it is not much more than a mistake in tone. The rape of Carradine's sanity is not so easily dismissed...