Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...
Audubon was interested in beasts as well as birds. He and his two sons contributed the illustrations of this volume, now reissued after 119 years; they are lively, formal, detailed and at the same time natural. Unlike his great...
Earlier reports indicated attempts were being made to avert civil war. Behind the scene of troop movements and formal government changes, according to Washington reports, representatives of the King and leaders of the junta were conducting negotiations...
Prince Erie boasts some of the finest dialog heard on a stage in-recent years. Mayer's speeches combine formal rhythms and precise images with deliberately chosen colloquialisms and small mistakes in grammar, both creating characterization and recreating the formal journalistic idiom of the period. Reporting the market crash, the Heraldreporter ends his news story with, "Threats against Fisk are freely indulged in." Fisk's early employer Daniel Drew prays, "Deliver me from the House of the Harlot, Lord, and from the rest of this here lewd company who don't give two bits for Thy commandments...
...still refuses to allow the Vietcong to attend the General Assembly. The Administration says that it is useless to even talk about discussions since the Vietcong will never drop their earlier objections to formal discussion in any U.N. forum. After all, the U.S. argument continues, if the N.L.F. or North Vietnamese agree to discussions, these would serve no constructive purpose since the Vietcong will never drop their objections to United Nations involvement in Vietnam. William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, and Robert J. McCloskey, State Department spokesman, have presented long lists of statements...