Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move would have cost the council an additional $1000 more than the $500 cost of having the banquet in a house. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was willing to chip in $700 for the more formal event, said Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the academics committee...
Plans for a ceremony comemorating the honorawait formal notification from the federalgovernment, which is expected soon
...important failing, as Mr. Rowe mentions, is the problem of training. In the History Department, for example, there is no formal training of TFs in even the rudiments of teaching, let alone teaching in the Core. We are encouraged to attend an annual workshop, and periodically we receive pertinent mailings (the new Teaching Fellows Handbook was mailed at mid-semester), and the situation in this department is common to many. Most TFs tend to compensate by devoting unusual amounts of time to preparation, usually at the expense of the research for which we have come...
...simple and touching . . . he is a great magician." Andersen's grandest illusion takes place in The Ugly Duckling (Knopf; $10.95). Illustrator Robert Van Nutt begins by using a primary-school palette. But as the duckling sheds its down and acquires an elegant neck, the dominant hue changes to a formal white, reflecting Andersen's change of mood. The story is sometimes read as a revenge play, but Van Nutt makes it clear that he regards the duckling's progress as a happy tale of growing up, giving the protagonist (and the young reader) the enviable role of Everyduck...
...presidency yet smudged her sense of priorities. The eldest of Cory's four daughters, Maria Elena ("Ballsy") Cruz, 31, is still her private secretary, and her only son, Benigno III ("Noynoy"), 26, was one of her emissaries to the Communists. Aquino attends no more than three formal dinners a week, and the day on which the historic cease-fire with the Communists was signed found her marking what would have been her husband's 54th birthday with Cardinal Sin and her one-year-old grandson Justin Benigno. Being a grandmother, she says, makes her happier than being President...