Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garbed in formal wear, the guests were gathering to attend a dinner hosted by the University to commemorate the 350th. At times throughout the two-hour blocakde, both activists and guests engaged in shouts and violent scuffles...
After the address, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, a 1932 Law School graduate attending the anniversary, joined Brennan for a less formal discussion with about 200 law students...
...formal, 50-minute lecture, Brennan went beyond the question of capital punishment, discussing competing views of the high court's role...
...nothing comes out of childhood without the formal keys to unlock it. Where other art was concerned, Moore (like his lifelong friend and patron Kenneth Clark, who arranged for him to be an official war artist in World War II and was thus partly responsible for the sculptor's best-known early work, the underground-shelter drawings) was a great looker and rememberer. Certain works were fundamental to his art. A stone carving of the Mexican rain-god Chacmool gave him the crankshaft rhythm of shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late...
...forgotten, or not known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which will take years, for the oeuvre is huge -- its grandeur of formal diction and intimacy of feeling will leave no doubt at all as to Moore's stature...