Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following an unprecedented wave of controversy for a student extracurricular, a proposal for an on-campus ROTC support group gained formal approval from the student-faculty Committee on College Life in April 1983. Both University officials and students expressed concern that the ROTC-related club would engage in the type of recruiting and other activities banned by the 1969 Faculty legislation...
Last year Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence approved a formal agreement with MIT and ROTC, putting into writing the 1976 arrangement whereby Harvard students could get credit for three of the eight Naval ROTC courses offered through MIT academic departments--even though the Faculty had designated ROTC an extracurricular activity...
...French last week scored a minor triumph in the battle: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that they indeed had a rival claim to the blood-test patent and were entitled to a formal hearing. Moreover, the Patent Office recognized the French as the "senior party," since their patent application was filed seven months earlier than the NIH application. Now, says Charles Lipsey, a patent attorney for Pasteur, "the burden of proving that they invented the test first is going to rest on Dr. Gallo...
...bright, straightforward youth, with a special talent for languages, mathematics and the piano, who would be an interesting lad even if his dad did not happen to be Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does...
...Sartre halfheartedly proposed marriage, but instead they worked out a deal: complete equality between them, complete freedom to have affairs with others, complete honesty about everything. And so, without ever actually sharing an apartment, they lived together for the rest of their lives, always addressing each other with the formal "vous...