Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe voted 396 to 369 to have stags at the Christmas Formal in an all-college poll on Monday, Joan Rubinstein '56, chairman of the 'Cliffe Social Committee, revealed yesterday...
...however, it was extremely rare for any team to play more than four Ivy games in a season, with many playing only two or three. Through the 1930's, most Group members increased their Ivy schedules, and since 1945, when the first presidents' agreement set up a formal Ivy Group (although not a formal league), the trend towards a complete round-robin has been a steady one, as evidenced in the Ivy members' schedules...
Sturdy Swedes. Covering such a course in a slow walk would be a trial for the average athlete. Sturdy Scandinavians turn the wild cross-country scrambles into punishing foot races. Known officially as "orienteering," the sport dates back to 1918 when the first Swedish club was formed to hold formal competitions. Unofficially, historians trace the race's origins across 1,000 years to a time when Scandinavian sentries guarded long lonely frontiers. Then, long-winded runners were the only means of communication with threatened inland settlements...
...artists are enough to insure the continuous production of whatever art religion may require. But . . . to effect a revival of liturgical art it would be safer to turn to geniuses without faith than to believers without talent." Couturier missed one point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant past, who possessed both the strength of faith and the assurance of an accepted style. Though Christian art is not quite dead today, any comparison with Van Eyck's vital and assured 500-year-old masterpiece can make...
...best, the original Carmen is pattern passion: a rose, a flame and a blade, woven into drama as formal as a Spanish dance. In Carmen Jones the dance is a ring of savages in firelight, jumping any way the devil pulls the strings, terrible and beautiful and simple as God's chillun without their wings...