Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others have written with an equal bitterness about the War, about estrangement, about the uncomfortable timidity of poets in America (I'm thinking of the anthology of Poets on Vietnam, Hayden Carruth's "On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul," or Berryman's "Formal Elegy" on the death of President Kennedy). Yet Wilbur has referred to these events in passing, as if to recognize their presence without allowing them to oppress his spirit, knowing the limits of indignations...
...Converting some graduate lecture courses to seminars. "Often only eight or ten students attend a lecture course," Fiess said. "When this happens, it's unnecessarily formal to run the course as a lecture. Students would get a lot more out of a seminar...
...finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West Germans sat at small, square, separate tables precisely six pencil widths from the main table. To solve the present impasse in Paris, some officials have suggested that no formal tables be used-but then the negotiators would argue over the size and shape of the coffee tables that would be needed to accommodate their ashtravs, water pitchers and doodling pads...
McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear formality. But the letterlines and page forms have a universal meaning independent of phonetics or linguistics. They be-speak exoticness, magnificence, and respect-compelling beauty...
...This is going to be an informal meeting," Kaplan said last night. "It can be considered formal only in the sense that each group will call a meeting...