Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STUNNING production could lift the darker elements of the operetta to an ironical statement against the smarmier preconceptions of musical comedy. After all, everyone in this play gets what he wants only through deceit or treachery, not least of all Fairfax, who uses his good looks and gentlemanly heroic manner to impress every man and enrapture any woman who crosses his path. In this world, marriages are contracted via the forces of blackmail, not true love, and the essential work of all involved--seeing to the imprisonment, torture and execution of prisoners of the crown--is never questioned...
...School degree candidate Cynthia M. Baker, said she was assaulted in a non-violent manner, but it was "definitely offensive." She said that she was standing in a doorway of Andover Hall when an unidentified man laid down on the ground, and without speaking, started to crawl under her skirt. Baker immediately began "yelling and brandishing an office coffeepot...
...consider the letter [by Joan Bok] to be inappropriate and undemocratic. The Board of Overseers is supposed to be administering this election in a fair and impartial manner. In a democratic society, the people administering the election don't instruct the voters how to vote, why or for whom," said "Alumni Against Apartheid" candidate John T. Plotz...
...real fault, though, lies with a University that is unwilling to state publicly the extent of the problem. Several years ago, Harvard publicized a study which concluded in part that minority students were academic underachievers--Harvard would never, it seems, dare offend its athletes in a similar manner. Charles T. Kurzman
...Nevada explosion, designed to test the effects of radiation on American warheads, will underline in the bluntest possible manner the swift White House rejection of the Kremlin's latest arms-control overture. With the deft mixing of propaganda and substance that has been the hallmark of his style, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev went on television two weeks ago, with no advance word to the U.S. through diplomatic channels, to propose that President Reagan meet him promptly in Europe to negotiate a total ban on nuclear tests. If the U.S. rejected the offer and continued testing, Gorbachev warned, the Kremlin would...