Word: decorums
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...Battell Chapel bell struck 5, a Skull & Bones man, a Scroll & Key man and a Berzelius man whacked Jackson on the shoulder in rapid succession. Following the established decorum for a junior with other ideas, Jackson shook his head to the first two. But to the Berzelius man he nodded, then walked to his room...
Mother of Decorum. On Good Friday, as if to reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
...Israelis pointed out that their constitution already guarantees free access to holy places (however, "subject to the requirements of national security, public order and decorum"). As for internationalization, that was flatly out as far as Israel was concerned. It would rather go to war again than relinquish the City of the Temple, its strongest national symbol. "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem," Israelis read grimly from the 137th Psalm, "let my right hand forget her cunning . . ." The Jews were not forgetting...
...under way, the House was beginning to look like a progressive-school kindergarten. One day last week, New York Democrat Andrew Somers, who has been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
...younger poets were worth reading: Randall Jarrell's Losses, an honest try at putting wartime experience into verse; John Berryman's The Dispossessed, technically impressive but marred by self-pity ; Peter Viereck's Terror and Decorum, flippant and satiric...