Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Administration official recently admitted, "We aren't pure, not by any manner or means." As a sportswriter working and traveling with a team, one meets alumni who are fanatically interested in athletics. One is told such things as, "Why don't you drop up and see So-and-So sometime? I got him in here on the assumption that he would go out for such-and-such a sport, but he hasn't. Maybe if you talked to him..." Why is a coach any worse than an alumnus with this attitude...
According to a lady who met him in Bristol during one of his sketching trips through England, Joseph Mallord William Turner was not the sort of visitor a hostess would want to have more than once. He was "uninteresting" in manner and "slovenly" in appearance. "He is not at table polite; he would be helped, sit and lounge about, caring little for anyone but himself, or about any subject except his drawing." Turner's dedication may have been hard on those around him, but it produced some of the most delicate and influential works of art ever to come...
...Deems has, more than once. His movements and even his voice are uncannily like Lahr's, except that, unlike Lahr, Deems has never been quoted to have said, "I don't understand a damn word in the whole play." His performance is splendid. Dan Morgan plays Didi in the manner of a surly, gravel voiced straight man. Though he has only two movements on stage--a mincing goose-step and a tugging at his bagy trousers--he is perfect for the role...
...inhabitant of the Towers, though not by choice. The best thing I can say about them is that they house some hundreds of students. This they do in a functional, utilitarian manner that would be perfectly acceptable at Florida State, but that is entirely amiss at Harvard...
...hastily-contrived inverse technique" in order to obtain a quorum. I agree that the lack of quorum in the Student Council's meetings on several occasions suggests a substantial indifference among its members--most of which indifference can not be attributed to the agenda or to the manner in which the Student Council meetings are conducted...