Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This action is not a "demonstration." in the manner of a hunger-strike; it is (in intent at least) a preventative, inhibitory even revolutionary act, in the manner of a labor strike. It is a step toward the strangling of the source of labor with which the armed forces produce their product (label it as you wish...
...other Catholics have questioned whether confession need always be made in the presence of a priest. Although there are obvious dangers involved, at least a few speculative thinkers have proposed that Christians might be allowed to gather in penitential services to confess their errors to one another in the manner of a group-therapy session, or perhaps have the option of confessing to trained lay counselors as well as clerics...
...thing that can save high art, he continues, is long periods of gestation. What's needed is for the "larger art public to stop breathing down its neck." In Smith's case, however, the argument is academic-because he has already spent some 30 years, in a manner of speaking, gestating...
Mighty Theme. Styron's passions seem to be confined largely to the printed page. The darker emotions-fury, despair, guilt-pour through all of his works, but Styron himself projects the reserved, slightly courtly manner of the storybook Virginian. It is a coincidence that his book should come on the heels of the summer riots. While Styron does not condone the violence, he views it through a chilling perspective sharpened by his five years with Nat Turner. The Negro extremist, says Styron, "is purifying himself by violence of a sense of his own abject self-ratedness...
...with the sharpest displeasure, and it wasn't until he limped unsteadily past us through the crackling brown patch of weeds toward the cider press, saying not another word, that I realized it wasn't the man himself who annoyed me so much as it was Hark's manner in his presence--the unspeakable bootlicking Sambo, all giggles and smirks and oily, sniveling servility...