Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performances, at least, are first-rate and John Travolta is a revelation. At once mean-looking and pretty, he conveys the kind of threatening sexuality that floors an audience. His dancing is electric, his comic timing acute. In the timeless manner of movie sex symbols, his carnal presence can make even a safe Hollywood package seem like dangerous goods. - Frank Rich
...bottom line on all this, however, is that Harvard's recruiting method deals in a mature manner with boys that are not mature. When they look at Harvard what they see is what they get--no steaks, no hotel suites, no special treatment. When they look at other schools they are being sold. Once someone enrolls in a college, they are no longer special, the fancy dinners disappear, the hotel room is replaced by the athletic dormitory. For many who come to believe the stories of their own importance and choose the school by the dinner, this comes...
...encouraging alumni participation through elections, which serves to broaden the University's base for self-evaluation and policy making, is unwisely undercut by this year's political maneuvers, which defy that spirit of democracy. By pursuing this new and narrow course, Harvard is acting in exactly the provincial manner that it supposedly deplores...
...A.C.T.W.U.. hailed the NLRB's threat to seek an injunction as helping to "encourage workers to freely discuss unionization." Stevens seemed unruffled: a company statement said that an injunction "would be inappropriate and unwarranted, and we are confident that any court would view it in the same manner." Certainly Stevens has not yet been hurt in any financially measurable way by bad publicity about its opposition to unionism or by the A.C.T.W.U.'s efforts to organize a boycott. Indeed, many argue that the fines and legal costs of fighting the unions are small compared with the cost...
...filing a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and two congressional subcommittees against the National Broadcasting Co. for misleading the public about psychic phenomena in an October program. Exploring the Unknown. According to the complaint, the show presented "a totally biased point of view in a sensationalistic manner arousing gullibility in countless viewers...