Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gracious by training, but never fully relaxed in public, Britain's Queen is not gifted at putting people at their ease. Her conversational ploys are stiffly predictable and her smile too controlled to be encouraging. But as the stilted gambits of formal conversation begin to freeze into an awful possibility of utter silence in her presence, the Prince strolls up, speaks, and all the tight, polite smiles, including that on the Queen's own peaches-and-cream face, widen into the kind of relaxed good humor that warms hearts...
...about Cheam. He thrived on its cold baths, slept soundly on its rock-hard mattresses, took his canings like any other boy, and distinguished himself on its playing fields as a first-class athlete. Last month, when the time came to start their own son's period of formal education, Elizabeth and Philip together delivered eight-year-old Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, into the care of Cheam-the first heir to the British throne ever to go away to school like a commoner...
...there were about six courses offered in American literature, and the English Department moved to recognize this field as a formal part of its curriculum. In a major reorganization of its courses in 1935, it changed the name of the section called "The History of English Literature" to "The History of English and American Literature...
Modigliani's Portrait of Kisling stands out as one of the most painterly works in this painter's exhibition, combining an almost archaic formal dignity with intensely human warmth...
Most French Catholics bridled at the Vatican's action. Le Monde spoke of "an authoritarianism which the French momentarily have trouble accepting." But the French bishops formally admitted their errors, issued a statement that, "to avoid all misunderstanding, one will not use the expression 'progressive catechism.' " The Holy Office decided that withdrawal of the catechism would not be necessary, ordered insertions correcting "Formal errors," last week sent stern Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani "to work out a lasting compromise in the vexed question of religious teaching in France...