Word: manner
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...fiery debate that preceded the balloting illustrated, Ronald Reagan has at last succeeded in getting the U.S. public excited about his Central American policy, but in a manner opposite to any that he ever intended. For there was no question what had caused the defeat. It was a series of ill-tuned revelations, in particular the disclosure that the U.S. had begun a number of highly visible?and, say critics, highly inflammatory?military maneuvers in Central America. Over the next six months, a total of 19 U.S. warships will take part in exercises off both coasts of Nicaragua...
Policy made in such an ad hoc manner has left important questions unanswered. Is the U.S. in fact committed to overturning Nicaragua's Sandinista government, or only to harassing it enough to keep it from fomenting Marxist revolution throughout Central America? Reagan and his advisers have made statements that can be interpreted either way. How serious is the Administration about promoting negotiations for a regional agreement that would ban all foreign military advisers and cross-border arms shipments in Central America? Reagan last week had Special Envoy Richard Stone hand-carry a letter to the Presidents of the so-called...
Modernization took all manner of forms. Tokyo's first gaslights brightened the Ginza in 1874, and four years later came the first electric bulb, which burned out in 15 minutes. The Empress stopped blackening her teeth in 1873. Japan tasted its first butter, its first lemonade...
Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, one of Japan's foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting...
...been strongly influenced by the disruptive fantasies of Norman Mailer and Henry Miller. Oe writes about themes as disparate as nuclear catastrophe (Hiroshima Notes) and brain-damaged children (A Personal Matter) in a manner that Howard Hibbett, Harvard professor of Japanese literature, considers "the most exciting and most imaginative of the postwar novelists...