Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Schlesinger, who used to head the CIA and after that was Secretary of Defense, lamented the marked "decline of decorum" this spring, everybody shouting at everybody else. "Television lives on division rather than interpretation," offered Lloyd Cutler, a constitutional scholar and White House counsel for Jimmy Carter. Ever since his experience around the Oval Office, Cutler has worried about TV's distortion of the Government process. It has grown, not diminished...
...beneath. In O'Toole's view, the play is only outwardly about the civilizing of the street- corner flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who learns from " 'iggins" the speech and manner of a duchess. Underneath, he says, the play is about taming Higgins, a knowing product of the world of decorum and privilege who has never envisioned a place in it for himself. Perhaps the key line of dialogue is Higgins' tossed-off confession, "I've never been able to feel really grown-up and tremendous, like other chaps." Says O'Toole: "Eliza from the start yearns to join the social...
...House members on center stage, believing this may be the best chance to raise a heretofore unnoticed statesman to worldwide prominence. Television producers are a good deal more cautious. If every one of those 26 people has to give an + opening statement, which may be necessary to preserve decorum, and the first witness is the pedantic Robert McFarlane, as is now expected, a countrywide snore may rise in the first few hours...
...Board's decision, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 undercut his own view of the council as just one of many extracurricular activities on campus. He claimed that it would be "unbecoming" for the prankster to serve as a student leader on the council. But decorum is hardly a reason to invade the relationship between students and their elected representatives. Its use here as justification is a symptom of the administration's narrow vision of the purpose of student government. The Undergraduate Council's own past conduct may be partly to blame for that narrow image...
...widower is always made more difficult when middle-aged children are involved -- especially when there are unmarried daughters." Perhaps a few readers could stop right there, unmoved by the promise of a comedy of manners with undercurrents of family squabbling and greed, set forth with whimsical decorum. But not those familiar with the works of the author who wrote these 25 introductory words. Peter Taylor, 69, has acquired over four decades a formidable reputation and a small but fanatical following among those who care about American short fiction. For many, such Taylor stories as In the Miro District...