Word: formal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee felt the old procedure was "excessively formal" and made the policy difficult to carry...
...knowledge, Henry James the novelist never attended Harvard College, and his only formal education was a brief stint at Harvard Law School when he was 19. (In 1899, when he graduated from college, according to the article, he was 56.) Were law students involved with The Crimson at that time, or is this a different Henry James you're talking about? HILLARY N. STEVENS...
...Starr now had evidence that would potentially support charges of perjury, suborning perjury and obstruction of justice. He approached the Justice Department and received formal permission to expand his inquiry. When Newsweek called to say it was preparing to run the first detailed account of the Lewinsky affair, Starr pressured the editors to hold off, to allow him time to enlist Lewinsky's aid in stinging Jordan and potentially the President as well. When Lewinsky met Tripp at the Ritz-Carlton again on Friday, she quickly found herself surrounded by FBI agents and prosecutors and directed upstairs to confront...
...case for Drudge--who complacently says his reports are 80% accurate--is that there ought to be a middle ground between the highest standards and none at all. And the Internet, which can be sort of halfway between a private conversation and formal publication, is a good place for that middle ground. The middle ground, of course, should be acknowledged as such, either explicitly or by convention. People should understand that the information they get this way is middling quality--better than what their neighbor heard at the dry cleaner's but not as good as the New York Times...
...psychological complexity and the deep-running poetic current that came out of it seem (as they seemed to the young Berenson a century ago) peculiarly congenial to modern eyes. His work is sown with recondite allegories, complicated quirks, unexpected twists of meaning. Despite its often ravishing formal beauty, it is full of unease. Apart from Durer's famous etching Melancholia, Renaissance art can show no more poignant portrayal of the way depression freezes both action and curiosity in its sufferers than Lotto's Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1530. It depicts its subject with sallow face, deep dark eyes...