Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...
...very real London of the '80s. A junior Cabinet Minister is found with his throat slashed in the dingy vestry behind the altar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Paddington section of the city. Across the room, a derelict lies dead, killed in the same grisly manner. In charge of the investigation: the sleuth-protagonist of six previous James novels, brooding Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh, a widowed intellectual who loves baroque music. As he did in such previous cases as The Black Tower and Shroud for a Nightingale, Dalgliesh focuses on himself as much...
Those who have worked with her praise her cooperativeness, her friendly manner and her ability to end a stalemate. "She's made a considerable difference in relations," says Gladys P. Gifford, an activist in the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a citizens' group which monitors all Harvard Square issues from the police to graffiti. "She listens to the community point of view. She understands that there is one. And this brings about resolutions on issues that used to be big battles...
...EFFUSION of praise for Kalb was so total that the ombudsman of the Washington Post felt compelled last week to use his position to provide balanced coverage. He asked, because no one else would, if Kalb's manner of resignation, a public news conference, was appropriate. He also wondered whether someone who is a State Department spokesman does his fellow journalists a favor by resigning rather than trying to change the Reagan Administration's perception of the press...
...William J. Bennett was correct last week when he accused Harvard of failing to meet its educational obligations to its students, even though his argument failed, as President Derek C. Bok claimed, to meet "high intellectual standards." It is unfortunate that Bennett's sloppy, unacademic approach and his arrogant manner obscured what could have been a convincing presentation...