Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goetz began his leap from anonymity on the afternoon of Dec. 22, when he was riding in a seedy subway car in lower Manhattan along with some 20 other passengers. The four youths, according to witnesses, were acting in a rowdy, intimidating manner. When they approached Goetz and asked him for $5, he replied, "I have $5 for each of you," and fired five bullets from a nonlicensed .38-cal. handgun, wounding all four and shooting two in the back. Then he fled. According to the prosecution, Goetz intended to kill the teen- agers, although he did not consider himself...
Douglas Dillon '31, a Manhattan businessman and member of the executive committee: "The campaign has been remarkable from the beginning because it clearly addresses the needs of the future, and does so in a manner that points the way for higher education over the rest of this century. There's no glitter, nothing extra about this drive. It's directed at achieving goals that benefit the most essential aspects of Harvard's mission...
...Monday, December 11, 1984. The Harvard Foundation hosted a reception and dinner for the honorable Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Executive Director of the NAACP. The event had a highly admirable purpose, the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the NAACP, but was handled in a most reprehensible manner. The Foundation brought Dr. Hooks to Harvard for a very private, invitation-only dinner attended by fewer than twenty undergraduates. Surely Dr. Counter who planned the festivities must have realized that a very large number of students, minority and majority, would have liked to have had the opportunity to hear Dr. Hooks speak...
ALTHOUGH BECKETT'S representatives intervened at the wrong time, with the wrong people, and in the wrong manner, they did raise an important issue. How far should a playwright's control of his work extend? Some states and some European countries have laws to protect the integrity of a playwright's creations and reputation. But theater is a collaborative art which ends on the stage, not on the page; the playwright rarely has the last word. For those playwrights who know more about literature than the facts of life in a theater, this is often a blessing...
Other enjoyed the snowfall in a more sedate manner. The snow covered banks of the Charles River seemed to be a good place to cross-country ski to Jeffery A. Halperin '86. The light powder-like snow was great for skiing because it was so slippery, he said...