Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scale, a test designed to measure the extent to which the subject accepts authoritarian positions in various areas. Students in the psychiatric group were lower on a measure of social desirability, that is they were less likely to endorse statements about values in a conventional and confirming manner. They were lower on a scale which measures the need to be different. For example, they were more inclined to say dislike rather than like to such statements as "Going along with a decision made by a supervisor or leader rather than starting an argument," or "Listening to older persons about...
...Those of us responsible for planning the Lutheran observance of the 450th Reformation Anniversary are deeply grateful to you for a superb cover story. It captures the rationale of the observance in a most thought-provoking manner...
Part of BDAC's answer is to tap such teen-age idols as Paul Newman, whose hip and he-man manner make him an ideal narrator for its film Bennies and Goofballs, some 200 copies of which are now circulating among schools and youth groups. Even more effective are hard-hitting documentary films in which the cameras simply train on the young addicts themselves. Almost every junior high school student in Boston, for example, has seen the movie Hooked at least once in the past two years. In the film, one teen-ager straightforwardly tells how she once stole...
...year old politician, in a manner akin to that of some of the more moderate members of the New Left, declared his impatience with the status quo of American politics calling for a "new and vital political force" to give the nation's disadvantaged some political leverage...
...chief economist, the firm chose James O'Leary, 52, longtime, well regarded research chief of the Life Insurance Association of America. For Edie, which manages funds worth roughly $2 billion and includes the Guggenheim Foundation, R.C.A. and Sears, Roebuck among its clients, the appointment promises a change in manner as well as mind...