Word: formalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There had, of course, always been fine scholars of the Middle East, but as Lockard observes, "Their interests were largely medieval, Biblical, or archaeological. They were all aware of problems in the modern period, but there was never any formal study as such...
Meeting in an extra, rose-bordered palace of King Feisal's, the four Premiers of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan and Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan gathered to give formal shape to the new organization. The last link in a defensive chain forged around the Communist land mass from Norway to the Philippines, it interlocks with NATO (through Turkey) in the West, with SEATO (through Pakistan) in the East...
...constitution, which supposedly equalized the sexes. The ancient gentlemen whose business it has long been to arrange marriages between families without the knowledge or consent of either bride or groom are still as busy as ever. But in modern Japan, young people find more opportunity to meet under less formal circumstances and even to fall in love...
...turned its back on content, and therefore on the public-and that it's a great pity. "Content" Rodman defines as "a projection through tangible symbols of the artist's attachment to values out side art itself." To draw the shutters on all values except formal ones, and paint pictures of nothing at all, demeans art to the status of mere decoration. And art is being so demeaned, right and left...
...with Two Hats. As Polaroid's president, Land is able to push promising research projects even when the payoff seems far off, e.g., color film for the 60-second camera, which is "coming along nicely" after years in the laboratory. He has a formal, functional president's office in Polaroid's Cambridge headquarters. But he spends most of his time in a dingy laboratory office cluttered with cameras, chemicals and corncob pipes...