Word: etiquettee
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Intent on observing what he calls the "etiquette of the saga," he persuaded Lucas to tell him what happened to the characters before Star Wars began and demanded that Lucas always be available by phone, so that he could find out how a character should look or think in Lucas...
Similarly, would it be too much to ask that Yasir Arafat, as the self-proclaimed prophet and dictator of the Palestinian movement, take responsibility for Sartawi's murder--or, for that matter, for the slaughter of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972? Should Arafat be made to answer for the...
Steven Mosher may not be regarded by the educational community as blameless, but perhaps humanity outweighs academic etiquette. We hardly have a free scholarly environment when a man of Mosher's integrity and compassion must bury his knowledge in obscure periodicals for fear of unleashing public outrage.
AIENUOUSLAYER of etiquette usually hides the uglier side of political struggles. It is considered somewhat uncouth, for example, for politicians overtly to polarize an electorate around issues of ethnicity and race. But in both Chicago and New York, where power struggles of tremendous importance are currently raging, the veneer of...
They still do, but today monumental is a husk of a word. In the past ten years, it has decayed to mean nothing more than "very big." American cities are now generously speckled with abstract ironmongery: sculpture that means nothing but is part of the perfunctory etiquette of urban development...