Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consequently, it seemed appropriate that the CRIMSON give formal recognition to the outstanding theatrical achievements of the season. Herewith follow the recipients of the 1957 6-C Awards (CRIMSON'S Cambridge Critics Circle Commendation Citation), determined on the basis of discussion and voting by this writer and his five critical colleagues (in categories that have more than one Award, listing is alphabetical by last name...
When the talking was over, and before Diem set out on a ten-day tour of the U.S. the two Presidents issued the customary formal communique. It was phrased in the same hard-worn phrases of today's diplomacy: both recognized the threat of the Communist buildup in North Viet Nam, Diem pointed up the need for "closer cooperation with the free countries of Asia," the two governments agreed "to cooperate closely together for freedom and independence in the world...
Last week the London press got wind of the story of the princess and the piano player and spread it all over their front pages. In Stockholm, Baron Carl-Reinhold von Essen, Master of the Royal Household, made a formal statement: "It was a little innocent affair in London, as so often happens between young people, and the whole matter was declared ended with the Princess Sibylla's reply to the Englishman's letter of proposal. This reply was very polite but definite. The proposal was, from the Swedish viewpoint, to be considered impossible...
...exchange for 50 vintage destroyers. Deactivated in 1955, the base has been carefully maintained. The existence of such readymade facilities was one of the base's most attractive points to the site-seekers. At week's end U.S. officials said they had not received any formal word of the choice or request for the base. Unofficially it appeared that there would be no great difficulty in obliging the young federation with its chosen capital site...
Under the Shower. Pinza developed into one of opera's giants with scarcely any formal musical training. At an age when some singers are already getting launched, he was working as a professional bicycle racer and a brakeman on an Italian railroad. The seventh child of a poor carpenter, he was brought up in Ravenna, considered a career in civil engineering before he turned to racing, in which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that...