Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge James Boyle pronounced sentence: two months in a house of correction, suspended for a year. Kennedy was not on formal probation, but he was made subject to the court's jurisdiction for twelve months. Prosecutor Walter Steele requested that Kennedy be spared imprisonment, as did one of Kennedy's three lawyers, saying that the "reputation of the defendant is known to the court, and to the world...
...will seek to increase economic assistance. Nixon is mindful of the surging economies that U.S. aid has helped create in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan; because of that strength, the Administration has requested $800 million in its foreign aid bill for economic assistance to Asia outside Viet Nam. Formal mutual-defense commitments such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) will be honored, but the U.S. will expect Asians to bear more of the military load. Counterinsurgency operations will be handled on a country-to-country basis. The basic premise is that the U.S. will support its allies...
...kind of presence, dominated by the Commonwealth Office and Britain's elite, 154-year-old diplomatic corps. The corps' own style, always rigid and decorous, has relaxed somewhat in recent years, allowing ambassadors to shed their uniforms and correspond with London in cables rather than in formal script. But its expense has not. Last year diplomacy cost Britain nearly a quarter of a billion dollars-a style that the purse-pinched government in London can no longer afford...
...feelings, and find a loving commitment." Though Diebenkorn and Natkin belong to no school and live and work on opposite sides of the continent, their similar approaches to painting have brought them both to a kind of stylistic halfway house between representationalism on the one hand and formal geometry on the other. Both are romantic abstractionists who have preserved on canvas a sense of place and object without the aid of recognizable images...
With regard to racial inequality, immediately after the Revolution all formal racial exclusions from clubs, associations, and the like, were eliminated. Accomplishing racial equality is being helped, naturally, by eliminating inequalities between rich and poor...