Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is adapted from the narrative of the 12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads...
...those areas most needed to perform in an academic setting," Chafin says. Most pressing, he notes, reflecting on the state of the department when he arrived, was the need for supervisory training. Not, he explains, that the supervisors were operating below standard, but that they had received no formal training for supervisory positions...
...competition, known as the "turkey meet" because it used to occur around Thanksgiving, is perhaps the most popular of the 120 formal contests held every year in the U.S. The meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming...
...that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?and works fairly?is a better way to stop crime, says Silberman, than stuffing more criminals into already overcrowded jails. Bringing plea-bargaining negotiations out into the open, establishing formal sentencing guidelines, and simply treating victims and witnesses more decently would help restore respect for the law. Nevertheless, Silberman cautions, the courts alone cannot...
John Wayne, actor, on what he wants on his tombstone: "Three short, simple Spanish words: 'Feo, fuerte y formal.' They mean 'Ugly, strong and with human dignity...