Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eckstein said McGraw-Hill's style of management would let DRI maintain its independence and develop. "McGraw-Hill, for instance, owns Business Week but they don't tell them what to print--and they won't tell DRI what to forecast about the economy," Eckstein said yesterday...
...perfect, and their vocabulary totals only some 1,000 words, but as Sergeant Edward Spinola, 39, explains: "I can communicate, where before I was totally lost." That is good enough for Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelik, who said last week that he was looking for funds for more Rassias-style training in languages besides Spanish that have become native to New York City-including Greek, Italian, Russian and Chinese...
...post-Vatican II style, the bishop's policy was developed through consultation, and has popular backing. Rausch was responding to outcries from besieged priests, troubled parents and Roman Catholics active in the influential Marriage Encounter movement...
...sweeten adversity, Shakespeare played up the toad's jeweled eye rather than its warts and bloat. Dr. William Ober, a Boston-born pathologist with an 18th century prose style and a tart Yankee wit, would rather dissect the toad. The eye looks out for itself; the rude and frequently ugly support systems of truth and beauty need all the help they can get. There is, of course, a long history of the artist as freak and invalid: Plato's ideas of divine mania; Philoctetes, the archer of Greek mythology, whose festering wounds made him unfit company; 19th century...
Newman's hard-sell tactics have turned off some of the patrons who are most knowledgeable about the arts. His prose can be flamboyant or plain trashy. He once billed Cavalleria Rusticana as "hot-blooded romance, illicit love and violent vengeance, Sicilian style." But Newman is a superflack, not a philistine. He wants to make culture a pervasive American institution...