Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crossed the equator. At banquets and state occasions, Baudouin scorned the special salons reserved for the royal party, shook hands with everybody, exchanged courtly pleasantries with the colony's ladies, disrupted schedules by lingering long past protocol deadlines-at one party until 1 a.m. Scheduled to deliver a formal address at Leopoldville's huge, open-air stadium, Baudouin looked out over a crowd of 80,000 people, noticed many fainting under the broiling sun. He unceremoniously took a pencil and cut his prepared speech in half...
Baker's arrival was timed for the formal opening of our new offices in the Sankei Kaikan. These quarters are in sharp contrast to our first home in bombed-out postwar Tokyo. Hard on the heels of General MacArthur, TIME moved into the Japanese capital, set up shop in backrooms above the Kyo-bunkwan bookstore and published its pony-size, adless Far Eastern edition. Last week some 400 Japanese and foreigners came to see our new quarters, and to sip, among other drinks, such an inscrutable concoction as the "Monkey Gland" (gin, orange juice, D.O.M. and grenadine...
...calculated their moves and primed their propaganda long in advance. Hoping to gain the conference initiative with what countries they had on hand, the Russians: ¶ Signed the treaty making Austria independent and neutral, and recommended Austria's way as everyone's way. ¶ Set up a formal organization of U.S.S.R. and satellites' armies, in a kind of anti-NATO...
...that day is not yet here. As required by custom, Premier Scelba journeyed to the Quirinal Palace to present his formal resignation to the new President. Scelba made it plain that he regarded his resignation as only "a personal expression of dutiful deference." Gronchi took the hint, and formally rejected the resignation. Scelba, who has shown more agility in surviving in office than activity in governing, thus won another reprieve which should last at least until the Sicilian elections in early June...
...seem always on the point of becoming recognizable, like reflections in a rippling pool. His spiderweb lines and frosted glass colors move and shimmer delightfully, seeming to change with the mood of the observer. Like all first-rate artists, Afro knows exactly what he is about. "Can the rigorously formal organism of a painting," he asks, "contain the lightness, the living breath of an evocation, the leap or shudder of memory? This, for me, is the problem...