Word: mannerses
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Contemptuous. When he went to Albany this spring, Lindsay was lucky to have a rowboat. Never had the legislature been more hostile; never had Rockefeller been more openly contemptuous. As if that were not enough, militant municipal unions went on strike last week in protest against budget cuts, thereby tying...
Civility is to the courtroom and adversary process what antisepsis is to a hospital. The best medical brains cannot outwit soiled linen or dirty scalpels, and the best legal skills cannot either justify or offset bad manners.
The newcomers, increasingly from Italy and Yugoslavia as well as Britain, have given Australia a much more vivid and varied texture, and have made its society more tolerant through diversity. A fourth of the populations of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth are foreign born. Foreign manners and mores have affected...
He also holds that sections of the Rogers Motion "involve the president and Governing Boards in the procedures at several points in manners in which they may very well wish not to be involved."
But there is no depth to the film. Rohmer said prior to filming that "it will not be as serious as Maud, nor as pseudo-erotic as La Collectionneuse . . . it should be both sunny and reflective." It certainly is sunny, but the rate of human substance per cogitative dialogue is...