Word: manneredness
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The young Forster eased from the suburban middle-class of his childhood into the academic world of Cambridge where he chose liberalism for his politics and writing for his profession. In the first two decades of this century, his stories and novels achieved a narrow critical appreciation, and finally in...
When he assumed the task, switching from what must have seemed the comparative serenity of his job as Under Secretary of State, Richardson was briefly billed as "Supersecretary," a mild-mannered Brahmin with the blandly earnest good looks of Clark Kent, and an administrative near genius invulnerable to any misadventure...
Street confrontations like Sybil's can drive the most mild-mannered, apolitical young Radcliffe thing to Bread and Roses. They can (and did) mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their bleeps and hardhats. And street...
Founded in Rome in 1946, the party was never taken very seriously. Its greatest showing was in the 1953 parliamentary elections, when it won 5.8% of the total vote. Since the current wave of disturbances began in 1968, however, the M.S.I.'s stress on law-and-order has won...
Disrupting courtroom decorum is an occasional tactic of defendants and even defense lawyers willing to risk violating the canons of their profession. Often with the help of an intemperate judge, they manage to raise a legal ruckus that may very well provoke a mistrial or a judicial error likely to...