Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department's initial endorsement of Watson was unanimous, department members said. In the second, less formal vote, Professor of English Marjorie Garber withheld support from Watson, according to her colleagues, several of whom asked not to be identified...
Unlike the organizations which guide undergraduates in their community volunteer work, there is no structured way for faculty and/or corporate Harvard to interact with the city. While there is no barrier to involvement, there is also no formal process by which faculty can discover whether their teaching and research needs might be satisfied by working in Cambridge...
...numbers say so. Both sales and rentals of tuxedoes have split the seams since 1981. The American Formalwear Association reports that sales, which were at $65 million in 1981, hit $100 million in 1985. The Chicago-based Gingiss International, the nation's largest formal-wear rental chain, did $500 million in tuxedo rentals last year, up 50% from 1981. At New York City's Waldorf- Astoria, 60% of last year's banqueters showed up in formal gear, up from 45% in 1981. That means, according to the hotel, that 195,000 folks showed up at the Waldorf...
...were producing tuxes as blithely as they turned cuffs; the rage became the rule. The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations. Movie stars such as Gary Cooper, William Powell, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire burnished the national formal-fashion ideal. Cooper looked as cool in a dinner jacket as he did in jeans...
Glass, Wilson, Byrne, Anderson and others had their consciousnesses forged in the '60s, when formal artistic boundaries were as inviting a target as the windows in a college dean's office. Their minimalist spirit was a reaction to the arid formalism that dominated the postwar period, particularly in music. But the rebellion is over, the insurgents have won, and they now find themselves in the unexpected -- and sometimes uneasy -- position of having become the Establishment. Notes the Next Wave's Roger W. Oliver: "All these artists started in opposition to what was being done at the time. But as they...