Word: decorums
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Blistering retorts to the villages exceeded the norms of decorum...
...impression is that many of those people signing the petition condemning Harvard students' breach of decorum during the visit of Secretary McNamara are doing so on grounds of etiquette and ignoring the more basic political issues. Justifications for extremist behavior, even of the mild sort witnessed at Harvard, are often very difficult to understand from the standpoint of an established society or an established policy. For people sincerely opposed to the war in Vietnam on reasoned grounds, I see three justifications for the treatment accorded McNamara...
...seems to me that these are the significant issues in evaluating the McNamara incident. Beyond these abstract considerations, there is a definite incongruity in insisting on proper decorum when the underlying question is of attitudes toward a vicious war, or of being concerned with not embarrassing a guest when the questions he raises concern the fundamental nature of our society. NORM DIAMOND Teaching Fellow in Government
...speak," Joyce has not given the slightest hint of intending to resume. This speech--one of the most famous in all literature--is simply a disaster. When it was concluded at the opening performance, one outraged man in the audience let out with a resounding boo; and only critical decorum prevented its being joined by at least one more. Joyce--and anyone else essaying the role--should study and restudy Marlon Brando's glorious Antony in the 1953 movie version...
Woes & Wiles. Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer. During his junior year at Princeton, he is overwhelmed by the mindless undergraduate decorum of the place and flees to New York, a room at the Y, and five years of psychoanalysis. Nights, he works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen...