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Although the Corporation must still give the final nod to any proposed increase in College costs, its approval is usually pro forma...
...scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat or Egypt will be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia." He went along with a pro forma condemnation of Camp David, but fought off efforts to impose economic sanctions against Egypt...
...telling hiatus of several hours before the party-lining press and radio broke the news. But Peking, which has yet to announce the U.S. moon landings, broadcast the news quickly. Most Communist organs reported the election matter of factly. Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev issued a belated pro forma wish for "friendship and peace between peoples...
Though the plot is fairly standard stuff--a dash of Moliere, add Congreve and Sheridan to taste--Wycherly's potent satire makes this play rather interesting. Even now, the crudeness with which Wycherly has Horner deflate all the talk of honor and the false morality tossed off pro forma by the other characters is a bit shocking, and in 1675 it must have been downright obscene. Through Horner, Wycherly punctures the veneer of London society and shows that the underlying motivations of all these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide...
Arthur J. Kyriazis '80, organizer of the program, said yesterday that official approval from CHUL should be pro forma because the program will be well underway by the time of CHUL's first meeting...