Word: decorums
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WHEN the Crimson Executive Board got together in 1903, you can bet they observed strict decorum. President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 (top row, third from left) made sure his boys didn't bring women along. He kept the dress standard high, too: black tie, celluloid collar, and gold Crimson medal were de rigeur...
Though the six Crimeds attempted to retain the decorum on the field that typifies Ivy League touch games, the persistent rough play of the twenty well-fed Princetonians caused the game to quickly degenerate into a contest of brute force. Lifting the entire CRIMSON team onto their backs (leaving the defensive team on the sideline watching through his binoculars), the Tigers encouraged them to retreat 60 yards for a safety and Princeton took the lead...
...Most liberals mistook this indignation at various times for law-and-order, fascism, racism, and even war-weariness. A year later the public irascibility became mixed up with ecology. Americans simply wanted a government that could govern, one which could execute clearly conceived programs with a maximum of legal decorum. The same national mania which put the Republicans in power could have, with equal despair, made Robert Kennedy President...
Another radical who adopted a strategic decorum in court found that it paid. Last October, Brian Flanagan, 23, a New York City carpenter, was arrested in the thick of the Weatherman "Days of Rage" in Chicago. He was charged, among other things, with aggravated assault against the city's assistant corporation counsel, Richard Elrod, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in the street fighting...
Flag Gaffe. While Charles retained his princely cool, a personable, polished blend of animation and decorum, Anne was alternately aloof, bored, alert and quizzical, as befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied...