Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress has embraced contrition chic. A formal apology for slavery would certainly teach Jeff Davis a thing or two. But would the ghost of John Calhoun materialize in the well of the Senate to filibuster against it? There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All the remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir...
...place where people remain wary at all times, furtively darting their eyes from left to right in an almost-reflexive attempt to gauge the status of the person next to them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...
CONTRASTS How to respond to formal Italian architecture? Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew turned to early American works like Portrait of a Woman, attributed to Ruth W. Shute...
...January the three countries made a formal proposal to CITES, seeking permission to sell about 30 tons of ivory a year exclusively to Japan, where ivory is used primarily to carve the personalized seals known as hankos. With only a single customer to absorb all their ivory, there would be only a single importing country to monitor. A panel of CITES experts investigated and found that, on balance, "the proposal will have a beneficial impact on elephant conservation...
SEOUL, South Korea: Efforts to establish a formal peace in Korea suffered a setback after a naval skirmish between North and South Korean gunboats Thursday. The North Korean vessel, which crossed into South Korean waters while escorting fishing vessels, fired three shots at the southern boat, which was on the scene to investigate the intrusion. The South Korean ship responded with two shots of its own, the South Korea's Defense Ministry said. No injuries were reported. But the incident was serious enough for South Korea to convene an emergency meeting of security-related Cabinet ministers. Although South Korean officials...