Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read an opening statement in a sure, powerful voice, but lapsed into the stammering, wandering style that sometimes makes his questions or unrehearsed remarks seem relatively incoherent. Said he at one point to the witnesses: "The case we, uh, that has to be made, and I'd like to see what each of you has to say on this, is uh, why should...
Despite widespread feeling that the danger should bring a change in the traditional politicking, candidates have not abandoned the face-to-face style-open motorcades, speeches from unprotected podiums, handshaking forays into excited and surging crowds...
...conclude with a 1932 recording of him conducting his own orchestration of some Schubert dances-a gesture of homage that was not unusual for him. What passed for classicism in his own day, he wrote in one of the letters quoted by the Moldenhauers, ''emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas I (and Schoenberg and Berg) endeavor to fulfill this meaning-and it remains eternally the same-through our means.'' Webern's meaning may still elude us. But the pure aesthetic integrity of his means continues to beckon us to the heights...
Still, Fraser has a yen to see European-style ''co-determination'' spread in the U.S. In West Germany, Sweden and Denmark, workers sit on supervisory boards. Studies suggest that they have little impact on corporate policy-for good or ill. Notes one German industrialist...
...advice is weighty. Trilling chooses her words so well she might be reading from her new manuscript. The emphasis on style seems picky, but Trilling is no Emily Post. Social elitism, based on knowing which knife to use for pate, she said, is silly. When used properly style can ease both class and sexual distinctions. Manners let you act without awkwardness. They force people together. "Holding the door," she said, "at least makes you acknowledge that someone else exists...