Word: decorums
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...statute of the British naval regulations of 1797 prescribed that no officer of Her Majesty's armada could wear a beard. It is a shock, indeed, to view Peter Ustinov with a clean-shaven countenance. Yet Mr. Ustinov's eventual victory in his battle against eighteenth century decorum must indicate the decline of Britain and her navy; the multi-talented Ustinov--producer, director, co-writer, and star of Billy Budd--completely dominates this ambitious production of Melville's novel...
...supervisor of the 4,500 national banks in the U.S., the Comptroller of the Currency has traditionally been the very model of pin-striped decorum. Not James J. Saxon, 48. When Saxon took the job last November, he brought with him 27 pages of recommendations for reform. With almost indecent haste, he raised the Government's assessment on nationally chartered banks in order to erase his department's $2,500,000 deficit, opened new regional offices, slashed paperwork 50%, and cut the time required to approve a new bank charter from nine months to 75 days. "Jimmy Saxon...
...Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The lyrics of the Champagne Song come out "Then Up with the Wine," and the veryprecise "Meinherr marquis" is translated "Look Me Over Once." Both the alternate Metropolitan Opera translation and the new Sadler's Wells translation by Christopher Hassell are preferable to the Dietz translation, and it is this fault that most...
...adjacent room discovery of a student legal cup of coffee with his . Although the time was only (weekday parietals for upper- end at 7) and although there was little doubt that the had not been in the room for than a short period of time and had maintained perfect decorum, the college required him to withdraw for a full year...
...tone of voice that defies simple interpretation, then Horace is a paragon of subtlety. His doctrine of the golden mean may seem to be a call to moderation; but, by a careful analysis of this recurrent theme, Commager forces us to see that Horace advised not moderation, but rather decorum, a sense of the fitting act, thought or word...