Word: formalisms
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Tadao Ando is a committed environmentalist. An architect with no formal training, he's probably best known for the Church of Light in Osaka, Japan. It features no ornament, but when light hits it, the rays form a cross that moves depending on the mood...
...having heard from upperclassmen that it was the best party of last year. “We actually thought it was more of a big deal than it was,” Mackey says. “It was kind of a shocker when we showed up in formal dresses.” Despite the less-than-raging location, holding the party off-campus accomplished more than high attendance. “It’s fun to have people get off-campus,” Moretzsohn says. “It’s nice to be able...
...protests brought down Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy and leveraged the former guerrillas, still on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist groups, into the country's political mainstream. As the prime movers in Nepal's transition from royal rule, they will preside over the monarchy's formal abolition...
...conservatives.) In private, he can be delightful company. Australian novelist Kathy Lette says "there's a loving, frivolous side of him," and describes a surprise party Brown organized for his wife Sarah that started with Lette and other female friends including J.K. Rowling hiding, giggling, behind Downing Street's formal furnishings. But as a scion of his nation's Calvinist tradition and the son of a Church of Scotland Minister, Brown grew up marinated in duty - which has perhaps contributed to the dour image the British press has long bestowed...
...Russia has a formally constitutional government. But it also has Putin - the Vozhd whose authority supersedes all formal structures...