Word: mannerses
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The Japanese have traditionally regarded open comment on physical infirmities as bad manners. Accordingly, they have been backing away for some time from such offensive terminology as mekura no kojiki (blind beggar) and bik-ko no kojiki (lame beggar) in their translations of the Italian tale. Nowadays the two villains...
There is one memory left to start the story forward and work down to Jimmy, who seems a tad still in that ongoing stream. Mr. Alton Carter, age 88, is Jimmy's dead father's elder brother. A short, gentle-voiced man, he haunts his son Hugh'...
The opposite, I felt. In his own way, he was telling a private piece of the long family story. The son of strong, lovable, amusing parents (rooted in a place and confident there) and the sibling of vivid and irreverent juniors, he is trained to expect equal fare from the...
"We are not going to be ruled by violence but by heavy manners. No one can hold us back. We know where we are going." Those were the campaign promises−despite little evidence to back up any one of them−that Prime Minister Michael Manley, 53, made to...
It remains to be seen how Manley plans to restore both prosperity and tranquillity to his troubled, gemlike country. As the campaign proved, the ultimate in "heavy manners"−a state of emergency that Manley declared last June to curb island violence−apparently failed to do much good.