Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tom Stoppard loves playing around with dramatic from: the characters in his plays see themselves as figuratively or literally on a stage. Fassbinder displays a similar interest in form, and a feeling for intricate vision detail to match Stoppard's verbal relish. Match this pair with Nabokov, with his witty...
Still, the strongest point of the Royals -stronger even than their speed and their pitching-is the simple fact that they are a team. They get along together, play well together, hang around together. In an era of temper tantrums, when the fights in the dressing room are often more...
Newspapermen are usually too worn and worried to be credible as heroes, even to their own very young children. But to Ralph Schoenstein, his father was the New York version of Superman: "Not a mild-mannered reporter who put on a cape in a telephone booth, but a commanding editor...
Citizens of the quiet, sand-swept Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (pop. 103,500) were trudging to their jobs early one morning last week when a brusque military order was broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped...
Since Viet Nam, the armed forces have been under pressure to find a way to screen out those likely to commit atrocities. A British study showed that the soldier most likely to commit such acts is the mild-mannered, over-controlled type who goes berserk under heavy pressure. In Viet...