Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
...opened on a great swirling storm of colors, which, as the massive backdrops rose and fell through 16 scenes, rolled across the footlights in rainbow waves. And awash in it all were the familiar Chagall symbols: floating maidens, topsy-turvy trees, horned animals, bursting suns and moons, and all manner of creepy crawlers and little winged things...
Waldo Pierce and his less exciting colleagues who only submit news of their own promotions will probably continue to hold a prominent place in the Bulletin, however, for Bethell is a very conservative reformer. His changes are mostly matters of presentation; much of the magazine's manner and content retain the tone of cultivated nostalgia that one expects to find there. The latest issue carries a full page picture of the last day of all-male study in Lamont, fringed with a mournful black border and captioned "Sic Transit Gloria Viri." Bethell like his predecessors pounds out for every issue...
...blunt and unexpected manner of Kerr's dismissal also makes the finding of a successor difficult, since rightly or wrongly many educators now regard the former president as an academic martyr. As pieced together from Kerr and the accounts of various regents, the details of the president's removal are now clear -and they add up to what one regent calls "a tragedy-because no one wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor...
...squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...