Word: manneredness
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But according to Brother Curtis Almquist, who is the mild-mannered, bespectacled superior of the monastery, the typical life of a monk is not one that lacks intensity. The monks have five prayer gatherings each day. Each monk also spends one hour in early morning meditation in his individual cell...
Summer 2001: I travel to Nicaragua to work for an NGO. Somehow, I finagle myself into a party at the ambassador’s residence. There, I meet the members of a congressional committee and, more importantly, their military escorts. Impeccably mannered, neatly dressed, well-spoken military men and women...
During the U.S. occupation of Japan, Anderson read and heard about silent films, but was unable to view one. When Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 and opened in New York to critical acclaim, Anderson hoped it would spur interest in...
It also doesn’t much help the cause of humor that the play spends far too much time posing as a comedy of manners, forcing Martin’s family to crack defensive jokes about his inexplicably bad-mannered actions. If the point is that no matter how...
DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that...