Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew that U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators have finally begun to move from rhetoric toward reality in their meetings. North Viet Nam's chief negotiator in the peace talks, Xuan Thuy, went out of his way to belittle American suggestions that longer tea or coffee breaks between the formal sessions represented some progress, noting ironically: "We talk about the seasons, the weather, the food, the scenery...
There is also an obscure, enigmatic, and somewhat labyrinthian Trudeau. A practicing Roman Catholic, he often goes on formal church retreats. He is interested in Eastern religions, notably Buddhism, that are "religions of love rather than ethics or morals or obligation or principle." Whenever he can, he goes off to his prefabricated chalet in the Laurentian Mountains where "I replenish my emotions, find my inner directives." With his colleagues, Trudeau is a man of little small talk. He can be moody and, when dealing with lesser intellects, even irritable to the point of arrogance. When pursuing a political goal...
...initiative," a slightly less formal pronouncement than a papal encyclical...
Velasco, a 75-year-old law professor, has been chosen President five times since 1934. Three times Ecuador's army has turned him out of office prematurely, charging his governments with corruption, inefficiency and leftward drift. A master of demogogic oratory, he shuns all formal political parties and organizations and goes straight to the people, depending upon sheer mass appeal "Give me a balcony," he once boasted, "and I could be elected President anywhere." He does not even bother to offer voters a program "Why should I?" he asked at one campaign rally. "What this country needs...
...that it thrives among insecure personalities who are in desperate need of certitude. On the other hand, the Rev. Larry Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect of incorporating glossolalia and healing into the spirituality of their church. Biblical Scholar Barnabas Mary Ahern, a peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, argued that glossolalia should be "running at the very...