Word: formality
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Wilson, who turns 60 this week, is sitting in an outdoor café on the Yale campus. A polite, doughy-faced man, he likes the outdoors because it allows him to puff on his Marlboro Lights, but on this unusually hot spring afternoon, he looks a bit formal and out of place in coat, tie and newsboy cap. He grew up in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and set out to educate himself by devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture...
...Over the years there have been proposals to make former Presidents honorary Senate members, or set up a formal committee with regular meetings, their advice to be tapped by the sitting President. Bad ideas, for the most part. Political rivals at that level don't want the advice of the others. But world media has changed what was never legislated...
...expedition members will sketch the area, creating guides to assist future climbers and hikers. They will include locations of mountains, ridges, glaciers, and other features, but will not draw up a formal...
...conjure the event up from nothing. Members ran around to get sponsorship from Square businesses and barged into the Cambridge mayor’s office to ask for support for the event. Without a DJ, members stayed up all night copying music onto tapes for the formal. A combination of luck, connections, and crazy ambition brought the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks to the event—ultimately a far greater success than anyone had imagined...
...Celebration, which consisted of a talent showcase and a talk by Brooks, ended with the first ever black semi-formal in Adams Dining Hall. As the men of BMF handed each lady at the formal a rose, they knew they had won their respect...