Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stiffly formal and preponderantly religious, they showed demure madonnas suckling solemn-faced infants, martyrs suffering horrible tortures with quiet dignity, earnest, humorless burghers and princes and their doll-faced wives. Single exception to the prevailing solemnity was a grimly humorous allegory by Painter Hieronymus Bosch (see cut), showing with peasant grotesqueness and a premonition of surrealism the hag-ridden death of an irresolute miser...
Basin Street was conceived as a lampoon of the hot-potato pomposities com mon to the presentation of formal music...
...handle himself in Washington clinches. This time he had potent help from Donald Nelson and quiet, able Budget Director Harold Smith. Last week's executive order lifted Wallace above wrangling. Henceforth Jesse Jones must sign any check Wallace shoves at him. Henceforth the State Department may enter only formal protests...
...Forum, under Chairman John W. Sullivan '43 has been created to provide the student body with well-known speakers on current topics. unlike the Yale Political Forum and the Princeton Whig-Clio, the Harvard Forum entails no formal membership. Its purpose as Chairman Sullivan put it is "to fulfill the need for important speakers on subjects of paramount interest...
...opposition on the forthcoming "Battle of the Bands" will be furnished by Rudy Wallace, last seen here at the Lowell House Winter Formal. He has been making a specialty of college dances, playing at the Maine Winter Carnival as well as at Colby and Wellesley, while a week before the Yardling affair he will be at the Boston College Junior Prom at the Statler...