Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share in an emotional payoff...
...formal election of the board and its chair was expected later...
Through a host of connections--both formal and informal--students at Harvard and those at Rindge and Latin come in contact every day, beyond the perfunctory glances of a walk through the Yard...
Still, Richman says that the informality of the CHANCE program--in contrast with the more formal setting in Rindge and Latin classrooms--is one way the program can help motivate students to improve their academic skills...
...More formal academic help for Rindge and Latin students comes from Harvard undergrads who serve as student teachers as part of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), sponsored by Harvard's Graduate School of Education...