Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restore your poise. 'No man is a hero, etc.'" It sounds like a great idea but without a considerable smattering of indifference it would be decidedly risky. To a Harvard man it might be enough to "picture" a man in his B.V.D.'s, and let it go at that. Decorum would be preserved, except in the mind of one timid fellow, busy with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels or striped silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would...