Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied at his press conference, this merely meant an admission by the U.S. that brazen Arnulfo Arias had caught the brass ring on Panama's political merry-go-round. "The act of recognition," said the Secretary, "does not constitute approval of the manner in which the present government came into power. We have, in fact, publicly deplored the means by which the political changes in Panama since Nov. 19 were effected...
...switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
...logical solution to problem one is to limit the number of guests in the most highly patronized dining halls, in the manner of the old Adams House rule. Problem two is more subtle. How much a hastily-gobbled frankfurter or dining with one's neighbors helps uphold the House system is unclear. But the integrity of each House, important as that is, should not be allowed to interfere with exchange of ideas which is, after all, the reason for coming to college...
...White, poet, humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...
...dull exposition of the ordinary topics of life, unless a catalytic agent is inserted. In the present production by the Brattle Hall players, George Bernard Shaw is the catalyst; his magic transforms the discussion into an amusing, intelligent play which the actors handle in a most capable manner...