Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapier (and at times its club) to anyone at the seat of Government. It approved of much in Harry Truman's Fair Deal, but it was unrelenting in its criticism of the corruption in his Administration. It praised Alf M. Landon and Wendell Willkie highly, but withheld formal support from any presidential candidate until Graham broke that precedent in 1952 by endorsing Eisenhower...
Dinner After Dinner. As Baba moves to her formal Indian betrothal, the characters of Nehru's India pass her eye. With the cruelty of youth and the precision of familiarity, Baba ticks them off. There is the strangely pathetic princeling drinking his schooners of champagne and serving a New Year's meal consisting of a complete Western dinner followed by a complete Indian dinner. There are the bony peasants, the compounds full of servants and relatives related in intricate ways, the Congress politicians sidling for jobs, Goanese musicians with their "desperate nattiness," mystical followers of that "tough realist...
...less than a rough working agreement on major propositions of policy. Its bounds define, in effect, the area within which a compromise reached according to regularized procedures will be acceptable. This means, generally, that the details of the compromise are left to be worked out on the formal political level, or even below it, by the institutions, groups, and individuals most intimately affected by the particular method chosen...
...season practice has shown a stronger team than last year and reports have not indicated any great improvement by Milton over its last year's squad. The lack of any formal experience and an indefinite line-up, however, may cause a freshman loss...
Back from ten days on the Red red carpet, the nine-man delegation from the National Council of Churches issued a care fully drafted formal statement about their get-acquainted expedition to Russia (TIME, March 26): "The experience was profitable. We understand the Russian church men better as a result of our conversations . . . The most severe limitation of the church is in the area of education...