Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because it requires freshmen to make clever calculations and to take risks. Number 99 may think that Adams House is out of the question or not worth the risk, while number 100 may be better at calculating its possibility of getting into Adams, or more adventuresome. In this manner, group 100 may get into Adams while group 99 does not, although both groups wished to live there. Clearly, the lottery does not live up to its intention...
Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste system as rigid as their overlords', seemed perfect Asian ambassadors for all things English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters...
...exception to this lack of character development is Jason's wife. Eliza Gleason does change the personality of her character from a romantic youth to a somewhat independent and mature woman. Her manner becomes more forceful when she leaves Jason towards the middle of the play...
...Local security measures are being taken to assure that recovery operations can take place in a safe and orderly manner," it said...
...withdrawal of the security forces. The police commander agreed to remove patrols from the township streets and to permit Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prizewinner, to speak in the stadium. "I know we all want freedom," Tutu told the crowd, "but we must get it in a disciplined manner." The throng returned to their homes peacefully. Later in the week, however, Tutu was angrily booed when he announced that a meeting with government officials had produced no concessions...