Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boost the price of their crude, an activity that has earned him opprobrium in Washington and some appreciation in Texas. Said an Administration official: "It's his personal business. It's nothing we condone, but we can't stop him." Hance contended that he has no interest in any formal alliance with OPEC, but he added, "What they do here in Vienna has more effect on the Texan economy than what the ! state government does in Austin. For us not to be here and have some dialogue and communication is ridiculous...
Once again, the Theta Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi encourages constructive dialogue, be it through formal administrative channels or informal discussions with our members. We do so because it is the only means of allaying the myths and producing mutual respect and admiration within the Harvard-Radcliffe community. The Theta Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity...
That goal is not always easy to achieve. Many of the inmates in the medium-to-minimum security prison have had little formal education, and their brief classroom experiences have often left little mark. When asked by tutors what they want to work on, prisoners respond with words like "writing" and "fractions." Many prisoners do not even know what subjects like "fractions" are, because their school experiences included very little real learning...
Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to believe." Aw, come on. There is nothing "transcendent" about Sultan's work. It is decorative and materialistic. Most of its motifs come from photographs, not direct observation; its style is distanced and gloomily elegant, enlivened by discreet erotic puns between, for instance, lemons and breasts...
When Brown refused to read a formal apology, his colleagues voted to suspend the Scottish M.P. for four weeks and ordered him to pay the $1,800 cost of repairing the silver-gilt mace. Brown enraged his party's leader, Neil Kinnock, who assailed him for "loutishness...