Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other ways of being part owners of these activities. The Navajo tribe just recently signed a huge joint venture uranium exploration agreement with Exxon. The agreement, (the first Indian joint venture agreement) gives the tribe equity shares in the extraction of uranium, and increased control in the rate and manner of development, should the tribe decide to develop...
...craving for standards of social behavior is obvious in the sheer heft of mail to advice columnists and in the success of table-manner classes for children in 800 department stores around the nation. Enrollment...
...essays on his favorite poets and novelists; portraits of Brighton, Wales and Ireland reprinted from his garrulous autobiography; a selection of poems and short stories. Plomer had a genius for the characteristic detail, the telling anecdote. George Gissing, a 19th century novelist scarred by neglect, wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away...
...falling apart of this household is seen through the eyes of Jack, 15, unattractive in a manner that only adolescent males can fully achieve. He has given up on personal hygiene, lusts after his older sister and spends most of his time alone in his room. Without any redeeming charm, he is nonetheless capable of evoking sympathy. Jack never deludes himself about the mess he has become; watching his sisters mourn, he notes: "I wished I could abandon myself like them, but I felt watched. I wanted to go and look at myself in the mirror." Long solitary walks take...
...season of celebration at Lincoln Center: not the opera this time or the ballet or symphony, but chamber music. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the smallest member of the musical circle, is observing its tenth anniversary in the grand manner of the Met. There was the four-tiered monument of a cake that was wheeled onstage at Alice Tully Hall during the first concert (with a slice for everyone in the audience afterward). An imposing, six-foot-long version was the focus of the society's "street fair" birthday evening on the New York State Theater Promenade. Musical...