Word: manner
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Because the decision to bring police on campus was only an extension of the Corporation's fundamental policies a movement mainly directed at forcing President Pusey's resignation would be a mistake. The nature of the President's office, the manner by which the men who occupy it are selected and their invariably intimate relationship with the Corporation, were all forces which pressed Pusey toward his decision, while insulating him from moderating influences. Only a comprehensive reform of the Administration will guarantee that Pusey's successor will be more responsive to the feelings of his constituents...
Some students today exasperated by the University's continued involvement in countries that do business in South Africa, say they doubt Bok's actual commitment to negotiation--but his manner of dealing with student protest is still a far cry from Pusey's stance. "Rather than most as issue head-on, Bok has the knack of avoiding direct confrontation through postponement," wrote one student in 1972. "He doesn't say 'no' directly," commented another. "He says 'let's set up a committee...
...risk-taking style," as one city education official puts it, apparently also governed his personal life. The department of investigation's preliminary report claimed that the chancellor solicited loans from District 4 employees "in a manner that was inherently coercive and frequently deceptive." His former secretary complained that she had made several loans to the chancellor, but had not been repaid. More damaging, investigators found that the eight school employees who lent Alvarado money had received a total of at least $65,000 in overtime pay in 1982 and 1983. They had in fact worked the hours, but most...
...Golding has never been content to leave literal enough alone. Wilfred Barclay cannot just be a talented writer and an unusually repugnant person; he must be made to stand in some inchoate manner for mankind, that abstraction imprisoned on "the crazy ball flying through space which if you care or have to think of it is an enormity verging on, no, surpassing outrage." At this level of ambition, The Paper Men invites unfortunate comparisons with Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the best and funniest work yet on the usurpation of a creative mind. Golding's book cannot match...
...dinner in the hotel dining room. At 9:45, a messenger summoned me to the telephone. The President was calling. I took the call in an empty room off the lobby. The strains of orchestra music floated in from the dining room. Reagan's voice was warm, his manner affable. "Al, George Shultz tells me he's had a discussion with you," Reagan said. "I just wanted to tell you that what he told you had my approval." The entire conversation lasted for less than one minute. The two of us said goodbye and I went...