Word: mannerize
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...fellow Chinese without consideration of sex or age; to maim and kill" netted her two interviews with former members of the Red Guard. One of them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been...
...which "a little mud on somebody's shoes" is treated like a little mud, no more, no less, within the context of that person's life and work. Then there are the values of the gossip/celebrity press, a netherworld of journalism in | which flacks and hacks operate in a manner that would never be tolerated in the rest of the paper or broadcast. Fairness, accuracy and balance are abandoned in the cause of titillation...
...Hampden County distraught officials decided in 1988 to adopt emergency release practices. Jailers like Michael Ashe were not enthusiastic. Criminals' walking free so early, Ashe believed, undermined prison management. "This is not the Vienna Choir Boys," he often complained to judges. Highly regarded for his frank and even manner, Ashe is a former social worker who has instituted reforms such as drug programs and data reporting at Hampden. Inside the prison, early release was mockingly referred to as "unearned good time," as opposed to the traditional time off earned for good behavior. Street criminals figured that the odds had shifted...
...Captain's uncompromising manner is not without its consequences, and as the play progresses Lloyd makes the audience realize that his character's refusal to bargain leaves The Captain with few options in the struggle against his wife...
...thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French. But he was unusually well traveled. In a day when tourism was an arduous and expensive business, confined mainly to the rich, he made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder...