Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have had to adapt-here at college, checking your e-mail is more important than that first cup of coffee. After trekking to Rubin's Deli in Brookline for lunch with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then set out to cross the Yard and head home. What I saw should not have struck...
What irks the likes of Soames and other vocal members of Charles' camp is that Diana's popularity is so far invulnerable. Media carping about her beauty and fitness regimens, her therapist Susie Orbach, her want of formal education, her abbreviated evening frocks, don't seem to have much impact. Nor does it seem to matter when critics fume that the Princess is expert in using the press and television to her own ends (as if Charles' staff and the Buck House operatives weren't trying hard for similar results). The immediate announcement of Charles' promises and the Panorama interview...
...celebrity will go on and on. Charles will enjoy the status conferred by a role embedded in his country's traditions. One day he will occupy the ancient English throne, he will open Parliament, the coins and bills will bear his portrait. Diana, in contrast, will have no formal place in England's order, unless she forces the palace to give her one. She has said she would like to become a goodwill ambassador, not an official one, and the issue of her future position is central to the divorce negotiations. Whatever role she is assigned, however, Diana will never...
Brown says he was surprised because Cohen offered such a slick package, including a formal letter on Lampoon stationary and one-page summaries of some of his story ideas...
...after the hordes of first-years streamed across the Yard to leave in their chartered trolleys--after all this, The Crimson chose to ignore one of the most important social events for a quarter of the college community and not run an article on the March 1 Freshman Formal. Has our esteemed campus newspaper decided that only upperclass events are important? Or was this just negligence? --Stephen E. Weinberg '99 The writer is a member of the Undergraduate Council, which sponsors and organizes the Formal...