Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrator at the Law School who worked with Leonard there, said yesterday that Leonard was responsible for a very large increase in the number of minority applicants to the school in the 1969-71 period, having done a superior job of recruitment. "Both in intensity, coverage, manner and style, he brought in applicants," he said...
...Americans from the period of optimistic hope in April through the scorching dog days of July and August, before climaxing gloriously in early autumn. At Fenway, the golden game of summer is played as it should be played--on grass (not the awful synthetic stuff), in a hard-nosed style, and, despite the presence of the new electronic scoreboard, without a lot of gimmicks or fanfare...
...Nixon gone into some other kind of work," muses Barber, "he probably would have done just fine." But the singular pressures of the presidency magnified Nixon's flaws (like his self-doubt). In contrast, John Kennedy's shortcomings were often obscured, his strengths (combativeness, style) enhanced by the office...
...truth-in-labeling act to ensure that the press correctly describes people in public life. Politicians used to be called by riper names than they are now, but even in these more discreet days labels can hurt. Gerald Ford is conservative, yet in his confirmation hearings preferred to style himself conservative fiscally, but "moderate on domestic issues...
...vulgarism for sexual relations." That tasteful ambiguity led many readers to wonder whether Carter had employed an even worse vulgarism, and the Times next day was more specific: "a common but mild vulgarism for sexual intercourse." Explained Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "It was simply a matter of taste and style, our taste and style. It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours...