Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delight as an old dog does when his ears are fondled." Are Spain's majestic cathedrals filled with "gabbling priests, rowdy acolytes, grubby vestments, candles drunkenly reeling and raining grease on all around, flowers faded or dead, statues thick with dust, sacristans spitting on the floor?" Neatness and decorum are snares and frills for those of feeble faith...
Witnesses & Principals. The judge imposed total secrecy and the kind of decorum that the Rockefellers can still command in an egalitarian society. Friends and relatives trooped into the courthouse in White Plains. The Murphys' housekeeper and the Rockefellers' children's nurse made their appearance in turn, but reporters were reduced to watching them emerge from closed limousines. Occasionally, an enterprising reporter caught glimpses of the witnesses and principals through the windows, performing as in a dumb show. Twice the Murphy children-James, 13, Margaretta, 11, Carol, 8, and Malinda, 4-were shepherded into the judge...
...only other new undergraduate rule this year specifies that "a student living in rooms or an apartment outside the College is expected to behave responsibly, to maintain good order in his rooms, and decorum in his relationships to the community...
...fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Holbrook, 41, is a teacher who comes straight to the point that "the roots of true literacy are in the child's natural urge to use language to make sense of its life." Scoffing at the "didactic decorum" that dominates English teaching, Holbrook ignores graded vocabularies and grammar drills. "Without 'vocabulary lessons' the child yet extends his vocabulary because he is searching for new concepts. Without lessons in grammar and sentence structure he yet comes to write 'by nature' sentences of such complexity that grammarians would take years...
...Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria mori...