Word: decorums
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...Decorum & Dignity. The birthday party also turned out to be a free-swinging attack on Jack Kennedy, his Administration, his family, his cronies and his family's cronies. G.O.P. National Chairman William Miller was the chief swinger. "Do you recall," he cried, "Sinatra types infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Eisenhower days? Or twisting in the historic East ballroom? Or wild swimming-pool antics shocking to all the country? Or all-night parties in foreign lands? No, you do not recall such things, because from 1953 to 1961 there was a sense of propriety and fitness and decorum...
...student, ranks 620th in a class of 905 ("He has to work for everything he gets," says one instructor). His course schedule for this term: differential equations, electrical science, thermodynamics, U.S. Government, piloting and navigation, and terminal ballistics. But in military aptitude, matters such as leadership, decorum, and the cut of his jib, the quarterback comes out, and he ranks twelfth in the class. Deeply religious, he has been known to bawl out nappers in the Navy chapel's "Sleepy Hollows," once remarked when congratulated about a football honor: "That won't get me to heaven any sooner...
...dresses themselves were completely ritualistic, and bore little, if any, resemblance to normal or rational attire. All were of one pattern, save only for those of the leader and under leaders. Each was designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb...
Finally, you observe, "parietal rules should not be discussed in moral terms," but rather just as social rules "instituted to preserve order and decorum in the Houses." I surely wish that you were right about this; and you would be right, too, except that the present set of paristal rules is now producing a succession of serious violations, and a system of attitudes about sexual behavior which are not only distressing in themselves but promise to move us closer and closer to outright scandal. So we reach a point where we must discuss parietal rules in moral terms...
...short, parietal hours are the creations of social rules intended to make the Houses a place both of intellectual activity and of relaxed socializing. The logical result of these functions is that if rules adequate to preserving order and decorum are enforced, there is no reason why parietal hours should not be extended. The Masters and Faculty ocght to extend parietal hours, on a trial basis, until 12 on Friday night and 2 a.m. on Saturday night. Since Saturday is a business day for the University, any sort of noisy parties should be prohibited on Friday night, and parties...