Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When not at the zoo, we return to the boarding house in which Snow lives to watch a variety of odd and lonely people attempt to interact with each other. Tension in these scenes centers on Snow's impatience with a fellow boarder who fails to clean the various messes...
To rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture...
"Obviously," the soft-spoken, mild-mannered Berndt says, "we were ahead of schedule."
The easy-going, mild-mannered coach--who all Penn officials credit for the historic turnaround--points out that when the Quakers first won the league crown in 1982, the seniors and juniors on that team were recruited and admitted in the pre-Berndt-Hackney era.