Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member advisory panel on the SAT score decline delivered its findings last week. As Chairman Willard Wirtz, former Secretary of Labor, brusquely summed up the report, the country has been "off stride for ten years." Although the 75-page final report is fraught with qualifiers in the traditional academic manner, the panel came to some firm conclusions about the nature of American schools-and society -that in the experts' own phrase warrant "careful attention by everybody interested in education...
...fewer than 18 foreign heads of state. Before each meeting he has read up on his guest. In the case of Menachem Begin, Israel's new Premier, Carter digested his book The Revolt. By the time they parted, Carter liked Begin for his intellect and warm manner. But Begin returned home and announced that three Israeli settlements on captured Arab territory would be legally recognized. The President's opinion of Begin plummeted. Now Carter is not very trusting...
...German cities during the war never fails to stun audiences, even those Germans who have been immersed in an atmosphere of guilt for 30 years. Scenes of adulation by massive crowds, weeping women and adoring children often evoke nervous titters. But the film's emphasis on the manner of Hitler's rise to power is intended to explain just how he managed to lead Germans to such infamy...
Offstage his deferential manner toward adults, his shy country-boy come-on to women, made him seem, whatever heights of fame he achieved, strictly and forever down home. He defined himself, as Critic Greil Marcus points out in an excellent Presley essay, "by presenting his authentic multiplicity. I am, he announced, a house rocker, a boy steeped in mother-love, a true son of the church, a matinee idol who's only kidding, a man with too many rough edges for anyone ever to smooth away. Something in me yearns for a settling of affairs, he said with...
This stripping down of both matter and manner may confuse or offend some of Lowell's admirers. But beyond the specific subjects of individual poems, the process of reduction is what Day by Day is about. This is a departure for Lowell, and the reasoning behind it is autobiographical. In his confessional poems, Lowell has always been acutely conscious of his years: they defined him historically, located precisely the jumping-off place for his memories and served as a shorthand index for the variety of personal experience he was likely to undergo...