Word: decorums
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...Rome Opera House puts great stress on some kinds of decorum: the doorman turned famed Composer Igor Stravinsky away one night last week because he was not in formal dress. But Romans have no rules against hoots and whistles during a performance that fails to please them. Boulevard Solitude, a muchdiscussed, three-year-old opera by a 27-year-old German named Hans Werner Henze, went against the grain that night and drew a record outburst...
...violent genius who cast a mighty long shadow. Born in 1573 in the north Italian town of Caravaggio, he went to Rome at 18 and almost immediately captured the capital by his talent for naturalistic painting, although contemporary academicians tut-tutted his ignorance of Raphaelesque composition and decorum. He worked directly from nature, without preliminary sketches, and painted sacred history as if it had all happened just around the corner...
...tiring but not tiresome, as you pointedly suggest. Doubtless, there were far too many official functions and politicians and too much heat, but we are not quite the unmannered, uncouth colonials your article implies . . . Your presidential parades and important civic affairs are not conducted with all that much of decorum and savoir faire, so why be superior about the undignified extroverts down thisa...
Unlike the smallish crowds that watch tennis with Emily Post decorum in the U.S., Australian tennis zealots turn out by the thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
...preserve decorum, the board was not ordered to change its decision, but the next selection board, in spite of the "twice passed-over" rule, selected Captain Rickover to be a rear admiral...