Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interpretation of a book both the critic and criticized party have read is not totally convincing. If Walzer's analogy were complete, for example, we would have to write or co-author as well as read all those books we criticize. Hermeneutics, to give Walzer's interpretive model its formal title, is a fascinating philosophical strategy with a massive history in European thought. But its application to political criticism needs more analysis and justification than has yet been generated...
...While a formal search to fill a soon-to-be vacant post on the seven-man Harvard Corporation has not yet begun, several University officials said they expect female and minority candidates to receive high consideration for the spot...
...President. Reagan has repeatedly denied that he knew anything whatever about the diversion, most recently at the March 19 news conference that Poindexter did not watch. Asked if he might have been told about the diversion but had forgotten, Reagan replied with a vehement no. After the formal session had ended -- but while he was still on television -- Reagan added that Poindexter and North "just didn't tell me what was going on." That flat statement dismayed some advisers, who had suggested that Reagan might want to use a hedge. Said one nervous adviser: "He was warned at least twice...
...formal smiles are fading fast. Until now the trade relationship between the U.S. and Japan has been handled with relative congeniality, especially considering the rising tensions on each side. Practically every potential crisis has been forestalled with cool-headed talks and bilateral agreements. But what seemed at worst a spirited competition between two trade giants last week escalated into a confrontation that could, if not handled carefully, develop into an old-fashioned trade war. In an extraordinary change of tone on the controversial issue of trade with Japan, the Reagan Administration announced plans to impose drastic 100% duties on several...
...while the image of Harvard as an elite finishing school for the wealthy is one to which the University at times pays homage, it is one that doesn't quite square with the increasing diversity of the student body. The formal severing of ties to the clubs, marked the University's realization that the image Harvard should be striving to for is incompatible with the final club ethos...