Word: formality
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...actor, musician, filmmaker and painter. The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is a monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent years: The Donald Richie Reader and a reissue of his haunting travel-memoir, The Inland...
Regardless of the results of the investigation, we believe there are steps Columbia should take to ensure a safer, more welcoming learning environment. Columbia ought to establish a formal complaint mechanism—an office or liaison separate from the academic departments that would hear students’ formal complaints concerning intimidation or discrimination. Such mechanisms exist, for example, to safeguard students who experience racially- or sexually-motivated harassment. It should exist to guard against improprieties motivated by bias against religious groups as well...
Massachusetts is the cradle of American Values: liberty, entrepreneurship, equality, patriotism. From the Boston Tea Party to this week’s election, the Bay State has proven itself the reliable defender of American ideals before there was even a formal America. The same democratic impulses that spawned the colonial town meeting live on in a vibrant local government and the spirit of civic-mindedness. The same emphasis on equality and justice that gave us the nation’s first abolitionist newspaper endure in our continuing quest for civil rights. So, after an election in which a plurality...
...gradually falls in love with him and begins to make Zelary her home, rather than just a place for her to lie low until the Nazis forget about her. Actors Geislerova and Cserhalmi artfully and skillfully depict their characters’ relationship as it gradually progresses from the haltingly formal to the faintly resentful to, well, a fairly strong argument in favor of arranged marriages...
...songs kept coming. Originally centered on simple three-chord punk riffs, Plan B songs quickly evolved rhythmically and melodically, pushed along by the band’s formal musical training. Klein says that the writing process has been increasingly collaborative as the band has gained experience and confidence...