Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moline, Ill., the other night, a lady asked whether Carter's manner was more a return to simplicity or mediocrity. It is a delicate distinction. The wearing of neckties on certain occasions evolved out of respect for others. Trumpets were used for centuries in tribute to people and deeds. True, all those renditions of Hail to the Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President...
...Imperial Manner. The invasion started quietly a fortnight ago when the Zaïrian rebels-probably no more than 2,000, though Kinshasa placed their number at 5,000-slipped across the border into Zaïre's Shaba region (the former Katanga province) and began to move toward the copper mines. According to U.S. reports, the Katangese had crossed the border in trucks provided by Angola, and were equipped with Soviet-made rockets. They were accompanied by a number of white troops; these could have been Cuban soldiers, but they could also have been Belgian or other European...
...sense of political impotence created a multiplicity of new formations, as organizations like the Ba'ath and the Arab Nationalist Movement, which had tried to embrace all manner of political belief under their own banners, split under the pressures of new demands, new political methods, and an increasing attention to stricter ideological definition. Thus, the "New Arab Left," which Ismael finally defines as "those new parties and/or organizations that publicly and unequivocally declare adherence to Marxism-Leninism" is the offspring of political events and older organizations which intensified dissatisfaction with the status quo, rather than quelling...
...Henry poems included here lack some of this edgy vitality, although in the prologue to a work he never wrote, Berryman could open a prayer for inspiration in typically boisterous manner: "So screw you, Muses." Late in the book a poem begins "I didn't. And I didn't."-celebrating a suicide urge that the poet had resisted. Some 40 hours after he wrote these lines, Berryman...
Unfortunately, in the second act Berger stumbles, failing to maintain his revealing characterizations. He resolves his psychodrama in the most facile manner. Instead of continuing to explore Todd's and Leo's inability to handle a deep involvement, he introduces a new theme--their suppressed homosexuality. Just as they hide their feelings for women, they submerge their love for each other. The frustrated lovers transfer their apprehension about homosexuality to their heterosexual relationships. It is too easy a solution. The candle that emitted illuminating rays in the first act has burned down to leave only an amorphous mass...