Word: decorums
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...greatest deliberative body on earth. Vital issues are very often resolved casually after pawky debates; speakers drone on in an echo chamber of vacant desks. Delay and confusion abound. Last week Senators tugged valiantly at their togas and amended the rule book in the name of statesmanly decorum...
...incendiary oratory, a paradoxical atmosphere of decorum prevailed in most cities marking the day. In Los Angeles, poetry reading was the rule, including one eulogy, "It Was a Funky Deal," delivered under a banner of Malcolm's face. In Washington, two observances were marked by quiet meditation, and efforts to shut Negro classrooms and urge workers off their jobs for the day proved largely ineffectual. As his followers listened to tapes of the uhuru guru, the Black Power movement that he helped model was facing a conflict between its words and deeds...
...hovercraft. Driven by four 19½-ft. propellers and supported on a cushion of air, the 130-ft.-long, 76-ft.-wide craft moved smoothly into waters whipped into a frenzy by near-gale winds. As the London Times described it, "the huge amphibian lifted her skirts with commendable decorum and tripped into the water correctly in every...
William A. Rusher, the Buckley conservative who founded the Harvard Young Republican Club in 1947, values decorum. Rusher, now publisher of the National Review returns to Harvard every year to speak to today's Republican Club. Last year he said he was pleased to see all the males who had come to hear him without beards and with ties...
Despite a recommendation by a national advisory council that corporal punishment be abolished in the state primary schools, many British educators stoutly defend the practice as essential to classroom decorum. Of 3,000 delegates at a National Head Teachers Conference this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...