Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland, Ore., though well aware that nobody supposes he has barnstormed for his health through 45 States in the past twelvemonth, he made formal announcement that he is a candidate for the GOPresidential nomination. > He disposed of another ritualistic prerequisite for election by being inducted, feather bonnet and all, as "Flying Eagle," into the Blackfeet Indian tribe at Great Falls, Mont...
...that of a brunette turkey in a high stiff collar. A stickler for rigid protocol, he has sometimes been forced to maintain a multiple personality. During a period of political stress he was simultaneously Minister of Foreign Relations and Minister of Finance. Peruvians say he would write a formal note: "Rafael Larco Herrera, Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru, presents his respects to Mr. Minister of Finance, for the outstanding work he is performing." Next day would come the equally formal answer: "Rafael Larco Herrera, Minister of Finance of Peru, acknowledges receipt of Mr. Minister of Foreign Relations' note...
...main thing. Texas teachers start off by making the sounds of Spanish vowels. On the second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school. The same ideas are embodied in Mireles' textbooks (Mi Libra Español, I, II and III), the latest of which is just off the press...
...hopeless. It "represents nothing more and nothing less than a century-long lag of public morals. In principle, the Negro problem was settled long ago; in practice, the solution is not effectuated. The Negro in America has not yet been given the elemental civil and political rights of formal democracy. . . . This anachronism constitutes the contemporary 'problem...
Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...