Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film is not without its good touches. The scene pictured above with Bates' presenting his credentials in formal application for admission to the lunatic asylum, is one. But the good scenes are few; the could-have-been-good ones are many...
Neither were our celebrations "informal" in that they have always contained the complete formal elements of the Mass as required in this diocese. What we were doing was quite within all the rules. No "letter" was broken by our spirit. What happened was that the Cardinal had a newly restrictive letter written forbidding priests to celebrate with us, so that we would be beyond his pale. This we called a clear case of episcopal overkill. Our continuing public record thus conflicts utterly with your oversimplified description of us as underground or informal, either in form or substance...
...Shahanshah (King of Kings), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), and absolute ruler of his nation. It will be history's most belated crowning, for the Shah has already occupied Iran's throne for 26 years. Until now, however, he had steadfastly rejected the idea of a formal coronation. "It is not a source of pride," he often explained, "to become king of a poor people...
...Durants are not original historians in the sense of having a particular slant on history, except for a broad humanistic sympathy. They do not view events through the prism of philosophy or economics or ideology. Their method is sometimes closer to journalism than to formal academic history. Yet in recent years the academic attacks on the Durants have diminished-perhaps partly because in the U.S. the writing of history in general has begun to free itself from the 19th century Germanic mold, in which color was suspect and wit was heresy...
...plan for the new all-student government was proposed at the formal opening of the College on September 23, by RGA president Anastasia Kucharski '68. If adopted, the body would be called the Radcliffe Undergraduate Association...