Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
...second short-range solution that has been suggested is "live parking, in which attendants are employed to supervise the lots. The advantages in this seem obvious, for the attendant can distribute his cars in the most efficient manner. If he knows, for example, that Professor X generally parks for about an hour, he can put his car near the front of a lot, and if he knows that Professor Y spends the whole day in his lab, he can put his car in some out-of-the-way nook...
Then new method of "soft-sell" persuasion was, Johnson admitted, "less successful for bringing in money," though it was "better in the long run" than the former manner. Contributors this year, the president felt, were students "who wanted to give, while in previous years, they have been "shamed into giving...
After quickly passing over the distracting decadence displayed on the cover of the Registration Issue of the Advocate (a cover strewn with stems, a sword, knife, bottles, brushes, legs, a violin bow, its violin, all complementing a long, angular girl fiddling in a proper literary manner, while the world burns) one finds little of much interest inside the magazine. Other than the happy choice of including no new poems, the editors seem to have made little effort to make the magazine palatable...
...Science has been passed up on the high-school level," says Silber. "It usually is presented in an uninteresting manner, and as a result, the students are shying away. I'm sure we're helping to break down that barrier." Silber can prove his point. All five of last year's seniors are going to college, will either major in science subjects or take many such courses along...