Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fate was the most irritating of essays, describing ad nauseum the effects of nuclear war on every manner of life imaginable, and then proposing that we save all the cute furry animals and our children by forming a world government. Schell simply wasn't playing by political science rules--one doesn't simply say things are awful and then prescribe the best of all possible worlds...
...forbid the church to own property, operate primary schools or comment on public affairs. The result is a series of compromises, and the constitution bows to both sides of the birth-control controversy by decreeing that "each person has the right to decide in a free, responsible and informed manner about the number [of] children...
Reagan eked out an education doing odd jobs. He made his way successfully through the desperate Depression years on his genial Irish manner, his appealing profile and his enduring head of thick hair. He invested his movie earnings in real estate and made a bundle more, then entered government in protest against its size, cost and intrusion into individual lives. His view of power politics is still that of an outsider looking...
Lewis talks of his running in much the same manner as baseball's Reggie Jackson, who refers to himself in the third person proper. "When I run like Carl Lewis," Lewis says, "relaxed, smooth, easy, I can run races that seem effortless to me and to those watching." But he would have them know it is not effortless. "Everyone thinks it just happened one day, that the earth opened up and out came Carl Lewis. Everyone acts like I just stepped on the track...
...zoning regulations they were able to add the apartments that were cut out to the top of the building, where they command a better view and higher prices. The blue grid on the south side of the building adds not only color but also shade, in the manner of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleil, or sun baffle. "If you try to be different," says Fort-Brescia, "be sure that it functions right. My father was a developer. We know better than to fool around with costs and construction schedules...