Word: formality
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...contribution to humor in American poetry." Barr also published several essays criticizing the state of American poetry. He accused it of "intellectual and spiritual stagnation." He called out poets for being addicted to lyric poetry (as opposed to, say, epic or satirical poetry) and for being obsessed with formal experimentation. He dissed M.F.A. programs for churning out careerist, cookie-cutter poets who were "sustained by a system of fellowships, grants, and other subsidies that absolve recipients of the responsibility to write books that a reader who is not a specialist might enjoy, might even...
...scene. Klein’s all-female ensemble, Plan B for the Type A’s, started underground—literally. Four years ago, the band debuted in the basement of Pennypacker Hall. Klein believes that “music is accessible to anyone—regardless of formal training.” Plan B put that hypothesis to the test. The band’s guitarist had played the instrument for only two months before the first show. They had “no real equipment,” Klein recalls, so band members balanced a broken microphone...
...Class Day speaker is chosen by a subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee, and the day has traditionally been celebrated as a festive, informal day for graduating seniors, in contrast to the formal pomp and circumstance of the following day’s Commencement...
Class Day, held on the day preceding Commencement, is organized by and on behalf of seniors. The day is a festive celebration for the soon-to-be-graduates before the formal pomp and circumstance of the University-wide Commencement ceremony...
...richly informed and shaped my other roles at Harvard. Despite having attended graduate school in England, I did not truly encounter the sense of intellectual, social, and cultural community so prized by Oxbridge until I took up my position at Harvard’s Eliot House. There I experienced formal dinners celebrating everything from new sophomores to illustrious past House residents, apple pickings and barbecues, and dining hall conversations about politics and philosophy that went on late into the night...