Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also elicit independent judgment about the needs of a whole area of knowledge, suggest expansion into areas in which talent is available, and recommend withdrawal from other areas. This procedure should reduce the total number of committees and provide advice which would ordinarily permit greater speed in extending a formal invitation...
MORE than 50 per cent of the sample said they would prefer to work for an employer who would finance continued education, specifically a formal degree program. Such a program is now being offered by the First National Bank of Chicago. Under its Scholar Program students are sent to a graduate business school to earn an MBA degree. The bank pays both tution and a salary and recognizes the student's need for study time...
...Colonna ball, one of the year's biggest social flings, party-givers shied away from sending invitations for fear of being rejected. While the royal ladies recently ordered 15 gowns from the famed salon of Princess Irene Galitzine, the King has yet to appear in Rome in formal dress. Most of the royal family's social activity has been limited to the King's first love-sports events. Last week he escorted the Queen and Princess to the international horse show at Piazza di Siena. He recently took up golf. He has not set foot...
...style of politics is to clarify the enemy, to put him up against the wall," says Mark Rudd, 20, Columbia's leading advocate of student power. Unmistakably up against the wall following the student seizure of five campus buildings, the university last week all but suspended formal undergraduate classes and canceled final exams. At the same time, however, a sense of fresh purpose seemed to be infecting almost everybody on the Morningside Heights campus except Rudd and his radical followers...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...