Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his final draft (which he had edited considerably with black pencil after the last typing), he was relaxed and jovial. On his desk in front of the lectern rested an inch-high plate bearing the Latin motto, Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...
...School of Design, did for a time attend the Institute Superiore d'Arte of Milan. The school, modeled after Germany's famed Bauhaus, was intended to give Italian architects and designers the same scientific theoretical training that established the renown of the great German academy. In a typically Italian manner, Nivola comments that the institute at Milan didn't even get around to translating the Bauhaus' declaration of principles. "Freedom was the main thing," Nivola recalls, "just like the Renaissance...
...occasionally the pressures of his academic load lead the Tech student to release himself in a more spectacular manner. Last May, for example, a water fight broke out between two fraternities and broke out between two fraternities and ended up in a riot. A District Judge, almost hit by a water bomb, called the police, and before the excitement was over 47 M.I.T. men had been arrested...
Eisenhower's creative leadership, though it sometimes had a hard time asserting itself through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable...
...with an assist from Kentucky's Henry Clay, who controlled the votes of three states, Adams was elected. (His Vice President: John C. Calhoun, who kept the job under Jackson until he resigned to become U.S. Senator from South Carolina.) For John Quincy Adams, Author Bemis says, the manner cff his election "was unsatisfactory to his pride...