Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be present at Faculty meetings. Dean Ford said he placed the topic on the docket because he felt that there was some question about the matter and that there should be some discussion on it. He did not speculate whether or not there would be any formal motions on it or whether the Faculty would act on the matter on Tuesday. "No matter what happens, however, students will not be permitted in the meeting on Tuesday," he said...
...favorite jokes. Alas, no one will tell it any more: the Budapest String Quartet has apparently decided to call it a career. Its three oldest members-First Violinist Josef Roisman, 68, Violist Boris Kroyt, 71, and Cellist Mischa Schneider, 64-are in poor health. Although there has been no formal announcement, they have agreed not to perform in public any more. Mischa's brother Alexander, 60, the second violinist, thinks that that is probably just as well. "Most artists play past their prime," he says. "How long could we have gone on without realizing that it was too late...
...Chicago for dissertation work in sociology. There he came under the influence, which he fully acknowledges, of Charles Horton Cooley and G. H. Mead, whose theories on personal interaction, small groups and the social character of the self still inform sociology courses. An energetic and devoted scholar who avoids formal social gatherings, Goffman is currently a research professor at the University of Pennsylvania...
Nice work for a girl who had no formal schooling until age 12. She spent her childhood wandering around the country with a jack-of-all-trades father who "had two points of pride. He never wore a hat, and he never had a job. He was always going to make a movie, or cut a record, or start a new hotel, or come up with a new orange drink." Her parents separated when she was twelve, and four years later Gloria went to live with a sister in Washington. Before that, she says, "I'd never lived...
Million-Dollar Fee. Though Meyer has a formal title only at Lazard Freres in New York, he also guides two other loosely linked Lazard banking houses in London and Paris. A onetime Paris stockbroker who became one of Lazard's most influential partners, Meyer fled to New York when Hitler invaded France in 1940. In the years since, he has helped negotiate some of Wall Street's biggest deals, including the 1966 McDonnell-Douglas merger, for which his firm's fee was $1,000,000. Besides serving as investment banker to such companies as ITT and Owens...