Word: decorums
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...contempt, the instant enforcer that empowers a judge to maintain order by acting as prosecutor, chief witness, judge, jury and sentencer. The power goes back to the days when judges were representatives of the King and had the authority to enforce respect for the monarch's "divine right." Decorum can work in a defendant's favor by preventing unruly behavior that might prejudice the jury against him. Yet Hoffman, in meting out more than 17 years' worth of contempt sentences, apparently tried to get around a Supreme Court decision that requires a jury trial whenever...
...statement called for a more rational discussion of the war, "conducted with dignity and decorum." and urged that "all parties... recognize the good faith and high patriotism of those on the other side...
...Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, said that Faculty decorum would soon turn the system into a purely appointive set-up. And several professors-especially those who had come from universities with PR election systems-said "the time for democracy has come...
...Grand Kabuki illuminates the paradox in the Japanese character, an outward decorum of almost inhuman restraint masking an inner fury of almost demonic feelings. Out of this tension the Japanese fashioned the peculiar beauty of their drama, rather like the Greeks, whose tragedies distilled the moral of "nothing in excess" from a people capable of nothing but excess...
...organized the greatest exhibit of Persian art ever held. His massive six-volume Survey of Persian Art (1938) is still the definitive work in its field. "Turn back! Turn back!" he once cried. "Look to the ancients. Old Persia can save us-those remarkable people, with their gallantry, their decorum, their selfdiscipline, their sensitivity, their humanity, their productivity, their animation, their originality, their vitality, their warmth, their transcendent piety...