Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Hall's guidelines are modeled closely on those established last fall by the Cambridge School Department for its employees. The school system's policy also permits children with AIDS to attend classes without any formal review as long as the child does not have open wounds or exhibit "unnatural" behavior such as biting...
...symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they were first exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery in the mid-'20s, these were interpreted...
...four-page letter from the Pope's top ecumenical adviser, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, to the 24-member Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which is studying reunion. The Cardinal indicated that the Vatican is prepared to end centuries of refusal to recognize Anglican priests as legitimate, a stance that was formalized in Pope Leo XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change would clear an important reunification hurdle. But as part of the arrangement, Willebrands asked for a formal Anglican statement of agreement with Rome on all essential doctrines regarding the nature...
Harvard makes these efforts despite what Bok said is a traditional reluctance by universities, "to take formal positions on ethical and political issues in the outside world...
When the committee began to meet to review grant proposals, Epps says, it had no formal criteria for deciding what types of programs to support. The rules for distributing the funds, he says, "were made in the process" of giving out the grants...