Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrained and unvitriolic manner McCarthy discussed some of the moral issues involved in the war. He objected especially to the high ratio of civilian to military casualties in Vietnam. This is due partly to the new weapons we are using and partly to the new ways we are using old weapons, McCarthy said...
...district; he also represents it on the county fiscal court, which is roughly equivalent to a city council. Since it has a county's sole taxing power, the court must pass on all public spending - a chore that al most inevitably engulfs the magistrates in all manner of hot politics as well as cool principles...
...many people, whether they are young or old, and it doesn't appear to be much different whether they are homosexual or heterosexual. It's possible that loneliness haunts homosexual people more, especially toward old age." If so, Bacon, now 57, bends his despair to the manner...
...story has been told on film before (The Petrified Forest, He Ran All the Way, Desperate Hours), but Polanski tells it in a manner cannily calculated to propagate tension. Tension is set up between Romanesque stones that soothe the eye and electronic jazz that grates the ear. Tension is set up in the script, which systematically intersperses-interfuses episodes of horror and hilarity. Tension is set up by the camera, which in frame after frame lets the danger lurk just out of sight until the onlooker feels like a man cooped up with a cobra he cannot...
...readily dismissed as expressions of pious paternalism, may I express my shame and revulsion on seeing (over national television) the disgraceful treatment accorded Secretary McNamara by some members of the Harvard community. If the purpose of the student gathering was to convey certain views to Secretary McNamara -- and the manner in which the meeting was conducted leaves one with serious doubts about the validity of that premise--one can hardly think of a way less calculated to succeed and more likely to alienate the listener. Understandably Secretary McNamara, who seemed initially...