Word: manner
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...rights and legitimate interests. The same is true on the campuses of universities, which accord free speech such great importance. Even the right of professors to academic freedom does not mean that they can teach courses outside their field of competence, or abuse their students verbally in an unjustified manner, or use coercive power to force their ideas on unwilling classes. (At the same time, students must give professors the freedom to present their views without fear of disruption or harassment...
Organizations at Harvard should have broad latitude to conduct private meetings for their members in the manner they think best. It may be good judgment for an organization to invite others with a particular interest in an outside speaker to attend even if they have sharply opposing views. But the University should not insist that an organization invite nonmembers to hear a speaker whenever there is reason to believe that they might wish to come. For example, the Republican Club should be able to invite political figures to speak at private meetings without having to allow members of the Democratic...
Hard as he tries, Mondale simply cannot engage an audience. But his problems run deeper than a poor speaking voice and stiff manner. It is not surprising that most people would rather hear Reagan's good tidings than Mondale's jeremiads. Mondale's empathy with the poor is noble but out of sync with the popular mood...
Larry Rivers depicts The Accident in a curiously detached, deadpan manner. The faces on scores of superb photographs are filled with ennui. James Rosenquist's 1960-61 billboard-like painting President Elect portrays John F. Kennedy as metallic, slick and cold as the 1963 Corvette...
There is too a kind of resignation in the manner with which Cal and Marcella reach out to each other. They seem to understand implicitly the humane gesture's futility in a gray-skied climate where the cold has seeped into everyone's bones. But if these lovers can make contact only briefly and tentatively, the film-a passionate whisper from a darkling plain-takes a firm grasp on one's attention. It is a very fine thing. -By Richard Schickel