Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the Atlantic Ocean sits another Harvard structure almost equally as resplendent as Villa Tatti. Adjacent to the Danish Embassy in Georgetown, nestled among 16 acres of formal gardens, Japanese cherry trees and pebble covered paths, is a 19th-century brick mansion, which houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library...
Taking only two minutes to approve the resolution, the Council gave a local committee the formal go-ahead to try to establish ties with the village of San Jose Las Flores...
Some woman. Some wind. Without formal education or social aptitude, she manages to elicit some highly sophisticated concerns: the limits of language ("God's writing stands as an instance of a writing without speech. Speech is but a means through which the word may be uttered, it is not the word itself"); the kinship of the oppressed ("Friday's desires are not dark to me. He desires to be liberated, as I do too. Our desires are plain, his and mine"); and historical irony ("Even in his native Africa, dumb and friendless, would ((Friday)) know freedom? There is an urging...
Even though it was armed with earlier papal speeches on biological ethics, Rome decided to prepare a formal document in response to requests from many bishops as the new techniques were becoming more widespread. In fact, some worried Catholics think the Vatican has been too cautious, rather than too bold, by waiting so long to speak out. The Pontifical Council for the Family has received letters from scores of couples, most of them American, asking for guidance or expressing concern about the technologies. The doctrinal congregation spent 20 months writing the text, consulting some 60 moral theologians and 22 scientists...
...students' plan, which comes in the wake of the University's denial of tenure to three popular junior faculty members, calls for student-faculty departmental committees to have a formal input in the tenure process...