Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing shortage, at least from the undergraduate viewpoint, is the enormous educational loss to the college. More than one fourth of graduate students are engaged in teaching, either as laboratory assistants, section men, or tutors. These student-teachers are often segregated from students except when performing their formal classroom duties...
...Formal, Frugal. The President of Argentina is stiff, shy, occasionally gloomy, gravely formal, sparing of speech. He is a professional soldier, a graduate of Argentina's Prussian-style Military Academy. He is not one of the generals Perón used to corrupt with favors, and he lives frugally and simply. "I don't like social affairs," says Aramburu. "Never did. I am one of those men who do not fear to be alone." His only hobby, dropped for now, is attending auctions of household goods with his wife Sara-and they have never had enough money...
Corn Likker Breakfast. As it turned out, Faulkner and the students had plenty to say to each other. He had no formal teaching schedule, instead appeared before most of the university's graduate and undergraduate classes in English to read his labyrinthian fiction in a soft, gentle voice slurred slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often...
Harvard and Radcliffe have already made final decisions as to the formal specifications of the building. It will include an amphitheatre-auditorium which should seat about 600 persons, a large stage stretching towards the audience--a compromise between the conventional proscenium stage and the newer apron stage, and a practice stage with a smaller auditorium, for rehearsals and "workshop" productions...
...theatre, which will have heavy emphasis on the development of individual theatrical ability and on new techniques in the theatre, will also have a large number of conference rooms for both formal and informal discussion...