Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shawnessy Hero. As in Ulysses, the formal setting of the novel is one community and the time one day. The community is the small town of Waycross, Indiana, and the date July 4, 1892. The hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, is both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy...
Acceding to a formal request of the Student Council. Provost Buck has agreed to postpone until April 1 any faculty decision concerning abolition of required seven-weeks grades and the hour exam system...
...attack on Pearl Harbor was not intended as a sneak attack; a formal declaration of war was somehow delayed through a diplomatic hitch. "It was a matter of great regret to the Japanese government [to learn] that the actual delivery of our note was delayed...
...Hungarian government of Premier Lajos Dinnyes was taking no chances with the untoward. Neither were Tito's security boys. Hungary's friend made a formal entry by private train-but not until another train, crowded with soldiers, had tested the track. Resplendently panoplied, Tito strode into the Parliament building and marched to the elevator. Then he stopped short, shook his head and gestured with one hand. Obediently, a functionary rode the elevator to the top, descended again in a trial run. (The elevator worked for Tito, too, but stalled on the next trip, trapping President of the Republic...
...distinctions between education for living and education for making a living must be discarded. American colleges and universities can no longer consider themselves merely an instrument for producing an intellectual elite; they must become the means by which every citizen . . . is enabled and encouraged to carry his education, formal and informal, as far as his native capacities permit...