Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy's formal announcement will open a major new chapter in the alternately tragic and triumphant saga of the nation's most eminent modern political dynasty. Americans have gone through the bright hopes of Camelot and the dark night of two Kennedy assassinations. They were both titillated and dismayed by the spectacular dramas of Jackie's widowhood and remarriage and by Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick...
...Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew's formal nomination is being held up because Hispanics consider him unsympathetic. Carter now wants to couple Renfrew's appointment with the nomination of a Hispanic to another important post...
...appointments, curricular and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many studnt generations." It seemed paradoxical to many students that the group charged with finding ways to include undergraduates in University decision-making denied them a formal vote on the matter...
...wear skirts to class and around the city. Molony says as a freshman, she was told to wear a skirt in the Cambridge Common and warned that the common could be dangerous after dark. But, she says, "My average skirt was 13 inches long." However, only the weekly formal dinners at Radcliffe actually required her to dress...
...constitutional inability to refrain from embellishing a good story, saw to it that that would be no easy job; he perpetrated an incredible number of myths about himself. He often boasted that he had never attended school for a single day. Untrue. He had at least three years of formal education as a child-a stint that was not unusually short in the rural Ohio and Michigan of his youth. As a budding inventor, he also attended classes in chemistry at New York City's Cooper Union after realizing that his self-taught knowledge of that science was inadequate...