Word: mannerize
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Ultimately, though, Summers’ brusque manner, honed during his years in Washington, ran afoul of faculty members and administrators who found his style too blunt and autocratic...
...Ultimately, too many of today’s entrenched interests felt threatened—justified or not—by Summers’ vision, or by the manner in which he sought to bring his vision to fruition. That was his ultimate undoing...
...house of Society Zeta Alpha, one of Wellesley’s four literary and theatrical societies. The first half hour feels distinctly like a thirteenth birthday dance. While boys are present, they are outnumbered almost three to one. As the girls danced and let loose in a manner fitting for a slumber party, the boys lingered on the wings, hands in pockets...
...manner in which reports of Summers’ resignation are emerging from Harvard may lend ammunition to professors who have blasted the president’s managerial style...
...else in the White House with the nerve or clout to bring him back online. Cheney "has a very protective family, plus there is an unfortunate intimidation factor," says a former Administration official. "Very few staff--either in Cheneyworld or Bushworld--are comfortable raising issues in a straightforward manner or giving constructive advice." Over the years and especially during these past hard months, the official says of Cheney, "this has not served him well. There is a culture around him of deference and reverence. More often than not, he is told what people assume he wants to hear rather than...