Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively cooperative, amiable tone established by Nixon and Johnson immediately after the election was preserved through Inauguration morning, when the Nixons and Johnsons had arranged to meet at the White House for an informal chat before riding together to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for the formal change of command. The trip back?the triumphal parade that was to take the rest of the afternoon?was a box-office success. All 38,000 seats along the line of march were sold in advance...
...Government can do far more to encourage diversity of education. There are, for instance, many alternatives to the B.A. degree. Not everyone needs or wants the traditional four years of college, but many can benefit from advanced training. As leisure time increases, more adults will also want fewer formal classes. The Government itself should not provide these services now, but its grants and research can point the way toward making education more flexible and relevant in a day when rapid change so quickly outdates formal learning. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education estimates that federal expenditures for higher education...
...Negroes on their campuses. Some, like the B.S.U. at San Francisco, are run by left-wing militants who are at least as radical as Students for a Democratic Society. Others, like Harvard's Association of African and Afro-American Students, prefer the civilized techniques of negotiation to a formal confrontation with white society...
...What. Red Beard is an oriental Pilgrim's Progress. In 19th century Japan, an ambitious young doctor (Yuzo Kayama) pays a formal call on the director of a public-health clinic. There he is shocked to find that he has been given a post as a mere intern...
Only an eccentric poet like Roy Campbell, the clerical reactionary, has attempted satire in formal rhymed Popian couplets, and perhaps only W. H. Auden has succeeded in didactic eloquence within a variety of formal, traditional stanzas. Doubtless, the exact antipode of Pope's Augustan order would be the artless, extemporaneous effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter...