Word: mannerism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...death must be inflicted cleanly. It is plain that any departure from this rule tends to reduce murder to butchery. It is only a vulgar mind which can delight in blood or in mutilation; we may compare a piece of work treated in a bloody, filthy, or mutilating manner to the ranting of a poor tragedian. There is also another reason for this first principle: if the work is not done cleanly it presents an appearance of bungling or hesitation, and nothing is more fatal than that to the impressiveness of the murder. If the artist does not make...
Soured and surly is his manner...
...approval of our views upon the matter. It imagines, however, from some careless expressions of ours, that the study of Political Economy is confounded with that of the Constitution at Harvard, as it appears to be at some other colleges; and that both are studied in the most abstract manner. As our former article appears to have been misunderstood in so high a quarter, it may be well to supplement it with a brief notice of the present scope of the required and elective courses in Political Science at Harvard. On the importance of such studies we will...
...however, the Harvard student can study Political Science in a manner very similar to that which the Post demands; and it is safe to say that, if he avoid the cramming against which our former editorial was directed, he will be able to undertake a voyage in the ship, of state without fear of unpleasant consequences from the unsteady motion of the vessel...
...most enthusiastic and appreciative audience. The programme consisted of a comedietta, entitled "A Happy Pair," and the burlesque, "William Tell with a Vengeance." Messrs. Bowditch and Shaw, '75, took part in the comedietta, and rendered the witty and sparkling dialogue with unusual vivacity and naturalness. The abrupt change of manner, in both roles, was particularly well done; and the acting of both gentlemen was accompanied with remarkable ease of manner...