Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness to Gilbert and Lesley Brown, let's stop treating their new baby daughter as a medical oddity. Like every child ever conceived and born, the so-called test-tube baby [July 31] spent about nine months in utero and entered the world in a manner acceptable to society and medicine. Louise Brown was conceived in a Petri dish, not a test tube, and she developed and was born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous...
...should be judicious and flexible in the manner of contemporary leadership, exercising his authority not by issuing decrees but by giving reasons; not by commanding but by inspiring; not by making lonely decisions in isolation but by wrestling for common consensus in open dialogue. In all he should be the guarantor of freedom in the church...
...small town in New Mexico who puts on a James Dean, grease-and-tattoos front of tough independence to hide his inability to break free of his oppressive life; Teddy, a disaffected, belligerant hippie who passes through the small town; and Richard, a rich businessman whose suave manner belies his actual spinelessness...
Republican Governor Robert Bennett, 51, brushed aside two token primary opponents. Even Republicans, however, complain that he does not seem to be much of a Kansan with his beard and his officious manner. He is also under attack for the rise in property taxes. But his Democratic opponent, John Carlin, 38, the boyish-looking speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, is still relatively unknown in a state where Republicans out-number Democrats three...
...fusing these roles Evans became a kind of historian of society, recording the social "facts" of his environment. He created an independant vision in which everything was concrete and lucidly described, yet at the same time remained indefinite, almost mystical in quality. Evans' photographs give their meanings in a manner which is utterly clear, yet still mystic and intensely complex; they suggest rather than tell the stories behind them...