Word: formality
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...Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign, organized the event by personally inviting Kerry to speak to her classes. She said that she wears two hats—one as a former political professional, and the other as a faculty member of the University. Though she had no formal connections to the Kerry campaign, her husband, James A. Johnson, headed Kerry’s search for a running mate in the spring and early summer of 2004. A well-connected Democratic activist and businessman, Johnson formerly served as the chairman of the Brookings Institution, a prominent liberal think-tank...
...Pacific leaders to reform their economies and improve their governance. Certainly, Australia's development (and security) ideal must be to help create stable and self-sustaining neighbors. To this end, Howard has announced that Australia will fund a regional technical college. Still, labor mobility remains on the Forum's formal agenda. Despite the myriad objections, a country of 10 million workers can afford at least to test a scheme for a few thousand temporary foreign workers, incorporating lessons from other Western countries. It may or may not bear fruit. But given the malaise of Australia's neighbors, it's worth...
...past, says Karen Fingerman, a Purdue University psychologist, grandparents' typical roles were as family historians and keepers of rituals. "Today," she says, "grandparents tend to be healthier, society is less formal, and the passions transmitted can include modern, hip pastimes like biking, running and even flying planes...
...takes a breath, and recaps in a single line: “There is a note in my pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part of her style. The pacing of her language is exquisite. Lines that are formal and decorously slow contrast with punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves...
Nicholas D.J. Henderson ’06 House: Currier Concentration: Philosophy Style Idol: David Beckham My style in three words: Cobain meets Gatsby. My style in one sentence: I like to mix the formal and the alternative to strike the optimal Zen balance between order and chaos. In 15 minutes I am wearing: A tuxedo. In 15 years I am wearing: A bathrobe...