Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, however, a freshman claimed that she found a new problem in Holyoke Center. On April 13, after cutting herself with a kitchen knife, she went to the emergency room at 4 a.m. and found the doors locked. She plans to file a formal complaint today...
Colwin's prevailing theory--that love is at best a paradox--leads her to a symmetry as incongruously formal as a minuet played backward. Frank and his wife are perfectly partnered in their taste for English cars, Early American sideboards, houses in the South of France and dressy parties. Billy and her husband are a matching pair in their indifference to all of the above. It is the adulterers who are incompatible, an irony at once deliciously comic and far too tidy. When the lovers finally sneak off to an idyllic week in a Vermont cottage, subsisting on passion...
...threat posed by Iran has led the Reagan Administration to propose selling the Saudis $354 million worth of air and sea missiles. The White House last week sent formal notice of the sale to Congress, and now faces an uphill battle to head off expected disapproval of the deal. For his part, * Bush last week stressed Washington's commitment to Saudi Arabia during his eight-day tour of the gulf region. The Vice President repeated the Administration's determination to maintain the free movement of oil and proclaimed that the U.S. does "not want to see Iranian expansion result...
Reading period and final exams are just around the corner. And you simply can't go to another spring formal this year. Need a few suggestions for a little end-of-the-year fun? A few Harvard Square travel agents have just the answer...
...Coercing people to participate in political demonstrations is wrong. Using the formal educational structure of class schedules to coerce participation is doubly wrong. If the accounts in The Crimson are correct, some students felt coerced. If they wished to go to their own section at their scheduled time, they ran the risk of seeming to support a particular demonstration. Some were subsequently photographed in that context. If even one student felt coerced, the action was wrong. Majority votes are not enough when the rights of individuals are involved...