Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus social life than in the United States, fellows say. "At Cambridge, students will get plastered every night. In America they go out and have ice cream. A lot of the student life there revolves around alcohol. Freshmen are legal, so we always have wine and sherry at formal dinners," Hurst says...
Next month an exhibit of Rubinger's photographs spanning 40 years of Israeli life will open in Jerusalem. He selected pictures that focused on ordinary Israelis and leaders in less formal moments. The retrospective, like the book that will be published in conjunction with it, is titled, appropriately, "Witness...
...begin to tie together the graduate schools, the council has held several social functions, including a formal at the Boston Harvard Club and another social last year. But council members feel that occasional social functions will not help tie together the schools intellectually or permanently, even if holding dances does publicize the group's existence...
Shamir, leader of the conservative Likud bloc, repeatedly resisted Peres' call for a formal Cabinet vote on the U.S. plan. He intends to offer his own peace initiative, which would give Palestinians some autonomy, but rather than beginning negotiations on the disposition of territories within nine months, it would stall for at least three more years. Last week the Palestine Liberation Organization foolishly played into Shamir's stonewalling strategy by hijacking a bus carrying civilians in Israel. The terrorist incident, which left three Israelis and all three guerrillas dead, bolstered Shamir's position that Israel should not enter into negotiations...
Yale's seven secret societies accept only seniors, about 12 each year, and are Yale's equivalent of Harvard's final clubs. The societies have no formal ties to the university, own their own land, are not on a centrex phone system and are not recognized as official student organizations, said Walter Litell, a Yale spokesman. Like the final clubs, they have been accused of being networking organizations and "bastions of elitism...