Word: manneredness
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In the volatile southern state of Kerala, the ruling Congress Party of mild-mannered Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week faced its first electoral test since he took office last June. The party had reason to fear the result since India has for months been racked by a succession...
Superintendent Calvin Gross came in to New York City's pressure-racked school system two years ago with a reputation as the nation's most technically proficient school administrator. His record in achieving racial integration and academic innovation in Pittsburgh had been brilliant. But Pittsburgh, with its 75...
The more experienced patients in the group immediately challenge both his ideas and his behavior. They tell him that none of them want to be seen leaving the building with anyone dressed the way he is. They tell him that they, too, used to affect the same mannered speech that...
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Richard Haydn guest-stars as a mild-mannered threat to U.N.C.L.E.
But the legend is more than good advertising, and not just because Call It Sleep is as fine as it's supposed to be. The legend increases our appreciation of the book. For we approach a neglected classic with a bit of deference. Remembering that others have missed its peculiar...