Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joan Manner. But if Lewis Strauss's reputation is unfair to him, it is in some degree his own fault. He has a remarkable talent for giving offense. Said the New Republic last week in an editorial on Strauss: "One is reminded of Shaw's comment that St. Joan infuriated people not by being right but by the manner of her being right." In his long public-service career, Strauss has fought his way to triumph after triumph. He has been proved right time after time. But in each instance he has, by his very skill and aggression...
...book, Religion, Politics and the Higher Learning, Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, emphasizes the differences between inculcating any type of belief and discussing religion in the same critcal spirit with whch philosophy is taught. White claims that teaching religion in any meaningful manner involves teaching a particular religion. Since the non-sectarion college is not prepared to do this, he argues that is must confine its instruction to teaching about religion, which "no more constitutes teaching people to be religious...than teaching about Communism amounts to propagating...
...Queen Is Coming. Ins, of course, know each other by language and manner as well as by sight. Yet the Duke of Bedford, who eagerly invites crowds of shilling-paying visitors to his stately country home, has become an out, says Queen's Stevens, "because he has comnlercialized what he has inherited, and enjoyed doing it. It is 'in' to open your house to the public, but you must say, 'Oh, what a bore this is.' " Land is important to all ins, "but only an out would inquire the number of acres. Instead, one asks...
...face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician's mind to the problems of heavy industry. Reserved in manner, quiet in speech, he runs Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants...
...dislike, verging on distrust, for what they say and the way they say it. Of course, such was Cassandra's fate, as the Alsops are probably only too ready to tell you. But it is not just their message which makes them unpleasant to read; it is their manner which really makes them objectionable...