Word: formality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the uproar, Carter sat stonefaced. According to a White House aide, the President was dismayed by the lack of decorum on what was, in many respects, a formal state occasion. But Begin, who used to be quite a heckler himself when he was a deputy, seemed almost to relish the rowdiness as a proof of his repeated argument that his negotiating powers are limited by opposition in the Cabinet and Knesset...
...both doctrinal conservatism and the reforms that grew out of the Second Vatican Council. Then in Latin America he demonstrated a blunt willingness to confront the theology of liberation and define just how priests should, and should not, pursue social justice. Last week he presented his first encyclical, a formal policy-setting letter from the Pope to the church and the world...
...postponed formal action on the proposal which calls for an Office of Foreign Study to coordinate administration and research for the program and a committee to evaluate all student's study-abroad petitions...
Early in life Tillie developed the vision and the will that enabled her to bring personal experiences into the body of literature. As a child she "stuttered a lot and learned to listen." She had very little formal education and considers herself a "homemade scholar...
Though the Cultural Revolution stretched lawlessness to an extreme, China never has had much use for formal litigation and lawyers. Ever since Confucius, the Chinese have valued collective harmony over the assertion of individual rights and the adversary system now characteristic of American justice. Lawyers did not practice privately in China until after the 1911 Nationalist revolution, because laws banned the "fomenting" of litigation, lest it disturb the smooth fabric of Confucian society. "It is better to enter a tiger's mouth than a court of law," goes another Chinese proverb...