Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murphy" story-except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker-I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session...
...polished man of the world in Turgenev happily never ossified his pure, wistful sensibility. His insight is acute, without blind spots, but his manner is mellow, without rough spots. In A Month in the Country he exhibits egotism in a slightly golden light, frivolity with a kind of silvery tinkle. He is neither too soft, too hard, nor too overbred: he will throw in a joyfully bad-mannered, sharp-tongued doctor, played with slapping gusto by Luther Adler, and in fine contrast to the superbly projected Natalia of Uta Hagen...
...program, expended social security, further slum clearance, a balanced budget, adequate military defense, the wise development of our natural resources, civil rights, and improved assistance for our farmers. They will disagree at least, only on the magnitude of these programs, the speed with which they are implemented, and the manner of their administration...
...majority consensus cannot be developed that is competent to cope with these questions. It simply means that they have not yet been brought within the range where the political processes which create such an agreement are operating. The attention of the political parties has remained focused, in a manner I have already described, upon diminishing areas of disagreement within the broad political consensus that emerged in response to the domestic crisis of the 1930's. Because of this failure to grasp the significance of the newer and infinitely more momentous challenge, the power and influence of America and its Atlantic...
...which we live. I believe that to do so may require rather fundamental shifting and rearrangement in the present political alignment, not only of our two parties but in the deeper strata of public attitude which support and maintain them. I shall concentrate, therefore, on the times and manner of such creative political responses in our past, to the neglect, perhaps, of other features of our political processes less relevant for the present purpose...