Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which, like any virtue, can be carried to excess. It is wise of Gray to note the phenomenon, kindly of him to bring it to our attention in such an often hilarious manner, supremely witty of him to make a play that will most appeal to people of the sort he has so wickedly satirized - the pridefully literate...
...Harvard women's swim team, Saturday's Greater Boston Championships at MIT brought some needed relief from the high-pressure schedule the women have faced recently. Approaching the meet in a casual manner, the women calmly kicked their way to a fourth-place finish in the seven-team field...
Hence, the class treated the sport part of the course analytically, not devotionally. All preconceived notions of sport were dropped since the subject had to be approached in an intellectual manner...
BAKER OFFERS two explanations for the schools' reluctance to embrace contemporary feminism. First, she says, the women's colleges were founded to prove women the intellectual equals of men, and "having completed this mission, they abandoned ship in much the same manner women in the larger society abandoned feminism for a third of a century as soon as they got the vote." Second--and perhaps more telling, although Baker fails to develop this idea fully--the women of the Seven Sisters failed to support the feminist movement because, in the words of Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent...
Accessibility is not a quality commonly associated with the work of Federico Fellini, but his film The Clowns reveals an ability to handle a journalistic topic like the world of the circus in a straightforward manner. The quasi-documentary approach to the material checks Fellini's growing affinity for the self-indulgent excesses that emerged in Roma and Satyricon, yet the gaudiness and affected posturing of the clowns enables him to at least satisfy this inclination without damaging the artistry of the film. An ultimately compassionate insight into the bittersweet experiences of life's buffoons, The Clowns provides a fairly...