Word: mannered
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...While the band’s lyrics touched on everything from sex to the cosmos, Rubin says that their music was partially a response to Harvard’s suppressive forces. “We were trying to terrorize our audience in a soothing, ultimately helpful manner,” said Rubin. “We felt like the spirit of the students as often beaten into submission by the University hierarchy...
...would garner critical acclaim one year later for his largely autobiographical novel “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...Your articles on Pope John Paul II painted a picture that was marvelously balanced [April 11]. An itinerant evangelist, hardheaded when it came to moral issues, John Paul II was a legend who gave a new face to old age and humbly accepted suffering, as Christ did. The best manner of appreciating what this man did is to follow in his footsteps. Kanene Benjamin Ezekwudo Enugu, Nigeria I am a Muslim living in England, and despite obvious differences with Catholics in my personal beliefs, I was deeply saddened by the passing of Pope John Paul II. The adopted motto...
...false dichotomy between religious and civic life. The institutions are separate, but the individuals who are a part of both institutions cannot partition their lives and their actions into non-overlapping circles without being false to their religion. The inherent roles of most religions are to prescribe, in some manner, a set of behaviors that they deem moral. Human actions, even when involved in secular, civic affairs, involve morality simply due to the fact that people are expected to make ethical decisions as a part of their lives. It is fully within the right, and even the duty...
...make peace with her father before his death; and in the room just below Plumb’s lives Maggie, the typical sweet elderly widow. Drake, the requisite horny older man, lives nearby, while Claire the pragmatic nurse busies herself about the entire hospital in a straight-talking manner that forms a perfect contrast to Duncan’s constant upbeat attitude. Everything seems to be going fine (or as well as it can be) until suddenly, at the climax of the sponge bath song, Plumb drops dead on the floor. Duncan, who finds him, is more puzzled than remorseful...