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...decorum was short-lived. Hardly had the session begun when Dr. Ahrn Palley, a balding pediatrician and an independent member from Salisbury, bounced to his feet with a point of order. "Certain Honorable Members in collusion have torn up the constitution under which this House meets," he roared. "The proceedings have no legal validity whatsoever." That was as far as he got. While his 50 fellow whites hooted and jeered ("The law is an ass!"), Palley was suspended from Parliament. Nine African deputies walked out with...
...Those who wrote that your picture of the dead soldier was tasteless [June 18] should realize that war and the battlefield have no regard for fine manners and decorum. "Good taste" is only for those who are safe and snug before their fires, trying desperately to shut out the world...
...students (scholars they were called then) wore their sober uniform, not ostentatiously distinctive or capable of arousing democratic envy . . .," reminisced James Lowell, neglecting to mention Thoreau's breach of decorum and, moreover, humbly refraining from revealing that even as Thoreau strode in olive green, he himself, in the class behind Thoreau, was decked out in vests and jackets reflecting the wilder reaches of the visible spectrum...
Professor Forbes offered two reasons for his decision to exclude Epps. First, he shared the Birmingham Harvard Club's fear that an integrated TV performance would inflame racists and endanger both the decorum of that evening's full concert and the very safety of the Glee Club. Second, Professor Forbes noted that--in the eyes of the local Harvard Club--the segregated TV performance was an unfortunate but necessary means to a laudable end. The all-white show was the best way to promote the main concert, which was integrated, took place before an integrated audience, and was followed...
...surprisingly, a language so silently eloquent teems with insulting gestures and yowls for legal relief. Indeed, the Italian penal code provides up to six months' imprisonment for "whosoever offends the honor or decorum of a person who is present," a stiffer rap if several persons are present, and up to three years' imprisonment for visual insults tossed at Italy's President, Prime Minister, Senators, armed forces or the Pope...