Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of movie you'll laugh your way through; nor will it make any great sort of impact on you. But just in case you discover your spouse is sleeping with someone, you'll need to know how to deal with it. And in a manner that's pretty clever, but not really great...
James Roosevelt Jr. '68, the notable exception, concealed his conciliatory private manner by making ill-advised direct attacks on the front-runner early in the race. As early as March, he had been dismissed as a shrill, small voice. Meanwhile, Kennedy found earnest and unsolicited defenders among devotees of his family, who abound in the district which first elected John F. Kennedy '40 to Congress...
Instead he becomes involved, in the manner of horsemeat becoming involved with lions, with a jumbo showgirl named Mardell and with the volcanic Maerose. "It was like being locked in a mailbag with eleven boa constrictors . . . His head came to a point where it suddenly melted and flopped all over his shoulders and out all over the bed. His toes fell off." This is sex with Maerose -- all very well, except that she is the granddaughter of Don Corrado Prizzi, a Mafia eminence not to be messed with...
...have passed through Harvard, particularly the Law School. At a recent Congressional hearing on sanctions against South Africa, for example, two U.S. senators reveled in pointing out that Bok taught them at Harvard. And following Bok's testimony, the former students questioned him in a less than grueling manner...
Like his wife, Sissela, a Brandeis philosopher, Bok tackles moral questions in lawyer-like debate. "He makes an effort to address ethical issues in a very public manner," Daniel Steiner '54, vice president and general counsel, says about his boss...