Word: decorums
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Congresses. Though the Russians themselves silently queue up for Lenin's tomb outside the Kremlin in a permanent line stretching halfway across Red Square, Intourist guides slip foreign tourists in near the front, and waiting time rarely exceeds 20 minutes. Due decorum is advised: one U.S. tourist was asked by the guards to take his hands out of his pockets to show respect...
...Trial Scene -- which Kahn has staged admirably, and which is marred chiefly by a mechanical delivery on Portia's part that extends even to the "quality of mercy" speech. Carnovsky's playing throughout this scene is a marvel. Here he lets himself lose control twice and shatters courtroom decorum by pounding on the judge's bench as though he were Khruschchev banging his shoe in the United Nations assembly. His modulation from this to his final "I am content" is masterly. When he makes his final exit, he stumbles on the stairs, then goes on -- defeated, but not crushed. This...
...attacked in Manhattan by - of all people - Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., whose intimate revelations of the Kennedy years had already caused their own furor. So many people were getting into the dispute, in fact, that Lyndon Johnson, who is unfairly treated in the book, seemed the very model of decorum; he kept quiet himself and ordered his staff to stay totally out of the controversy...
...twelve years ago. For one thing, Cleveland Judge Francis Tally reserved only a few seats for reporters as he went out of his way to prevent any repetition of the "prejudicial publicity" that had moved the Supreme Court to reverse Sheppard's conviction. But even if courtroom decorum was improved, how could Prosecutor John T. Corrigan be prevented from persuading a new jury to reach the same result? The answer had to come from Boston Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who was barely 21 at the time of Sheppard's first trial, and now, at 33, faced the tricky...
...real power, and its operations were under the complete control of the whole organization. The HDC met en masse whenever there was an important question to decide. Plays were selected in much the same way as a party nominates its presidential candidate, only with less decorum...