Word: mannered
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...knew he was going to be one, habitually avoided looking at all sorts of things other people noticed ? [while] ordering his eyes and ears to retain forever what to others seemed puerile." He studied people with unnerving curiosity. "Fashionable society mattered to him," a friend recorded, "but in the manner that flowers matter to a botanist, not in the way that flowers matter to a man who buys a bouquet." Proust was equally interested in less fashionable society. He had an intense relationship with his married chauffeur and invested in a male brothel. In fact, the shock of Sodom...
...period in the winter of 2002-03. The 84-page log, available in full on TIME.com showed U.S. interrogators using a wide range of tactics to get him to talk, including sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, forced standing, denial of bathroom breaks, denial of clothing and all manner of emotional manipulations. In the log itself, al-Qahtani both admits and denies working with al-Qaeda. U.S. forces captured him fleeing the battle in Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001. The month before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. through Orlando, Fla.--while 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta waited...
Summers brought energy to his job. Granted, he made some mistakes. But his cogence in debate should be lauded. Harvard is supposedly home to some of the greatest minds in the world; surely they are secure enough not to be threatened by a president’s assertive manner. What do professors say when students write unflattering course evaluations? Summers’ detractors have been right about one thing—bullying is rampant on the Harvard campus; unfortunately, it appears that Summers’ detractors, not the president, did most of the bullying...
HUPD officers originally reported to Quincy because of a complaint that a nude male was acting “in an agitated, incoherent, and violent manner,” Catalano wrote in an e-mail...
Police arrested a Quincy House sophomore last Friday night on drug charges following a violent struggle to subdue a second undergraduate who was allegedly under the influence of drugs, naked, and “acting in an agitated, incoherent, and violent manner,” police said...