Word: manneredness
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33-year old Buddy O'Neil immediately reminds fans of comic-book hero Clark Kent. Mild-mannered and unassuming, the bespectacled mentor has the "patience of a saint," according to one player. When the subject of his career comes up, O'Neil blushes and suggests that the conversation move onto...
In true Laotian style, last week's coup by the Communist Pathet Lao was a well-mannered affair, allowing for some touches of face-saving grace. It began with a series of "popular" demonstrations, some of them so tamely orchestrated that bored crowds began to wander away before the...
Died. Hannah Arendt, 69, brilliant political philosopher, cultural historian (The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition) and analyst of 20th century malaise; of an apparent heart attack while entertaining friends; in Manhattan. Born in Hannover, Germany, Arendt took her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg, studying under Karl Jaspers and Martin...
Far from the stereotypic, psychiatric construct of mild-mannered, repressed, impotent homosexuals with an Oedipus complex, they are better understood as brutalized, violence-prone men who act out their raging hatred against the world through an object offering the least amount of physical resistance, a woman's body.
"Just about anyone in Government can acquire personal tax information," protested Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale. "The returns can be requested and used for illegal purposes." The mild-mannered Alexander agreed, although he claimed that the Internal Revenue Code makes IRS acquiescence in such requests almost mandatory. In actual fact, the...