Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down everythingin my sights. By senior year, that no longersatisfied me, because I concluded in part that,since everything in life in inherently flawed,there is little inherent value to firing rhetorcalblasts at will. That conclusion seeped over intomy personal relationships, where I tried to resisttrashing others in the manner to which I wasaccustomed. The change left me at one pointexasperatedly trying to explain to an especiallyacid-tongued freshman that the only thingfundamental to life was to love one another. Hesuspected I had been Moonieized or surreptitiouslysubjected to an EST session...
...professorial," Cuomo recalls. Hugh Carey, whom Cuomo knew from St. John's, was elected Governor and persuaded Cuomo to take on the largely ceremonial job of secretary of state. In 1977 Carey pushed Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City. Cuomo, overcompensating for his preceptorial manner, turned almost surly. In the campaign debates, he made Congressman Ed Koch appear to be the victim, not an easy thing to accomplish. "I was too prosecutorial," he says. Cuomo lost the nomination, then ran on the Liberal Party line in the general election and lost again...
...parent organization of Hands), total more than $140 million. Working with various relief groups, the Geldof organization has already shipped more than 100,000 metric tons of supplies to Africa. Proceeds from Hands, which optimistic organizers estimate could reach | about $50 million, will be distributed in a similar manner on the domestic front, with funds going to grass-roots food, housing and jobs organizations...
Alda's rather dry and distant directorial style does not help. And as a writer he has not provided for himself as generously as he has for others. His romance with a teacher played by Lise Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet...
...order to inform the University community of the existence of both groups and their aims and objectives. We believe that questions of how the University manages and spends its money are important ones to consider. We encourage seniors, alumni, and other Harvard affiliates to support the University in the manner they feel most appropriate...