Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taskmaster at work, Barrows also knew how to play. She threw lavish formal Christmas parties for her employees and clients, taking homey snapshots of some of the less circumspect guests. To celebrate New Year's Eve, she allowed her employees to keep half of the take; women who worked through the entire night kept 60%. For all her high living, Barrows believed in noblesse oblige: she volunteered to buy groceries for an elderly neighbor and donated money to the city's Meals-on-Wheels program...
...students hope that their informal visit to the Nicaraguan university can be a springboard for a more formal exchange program for medical students who want to get credit for studies in that country, Schuster said. Similar exchanges are currently run by the Med School with Colombia and Puerto Rico, but plans for a Nicaraguan exchange are at least a year away, the students said...
...report presented a dilemma for the Administration, which has adopted a more conciliatory rhetorical approach toward the Soviets during the election campaign. Reagan sat on the report for ten months, claiming he had not had time to "study" it. Last week he sent it on to Congress without a formal endorsement...
...Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel. Since succeeding Sadat in 1981, Mubarak has worked hard to gain Arab approbation, giving Iraq strong backing in its war against Iran. Hussein decided to risk the wrath of Syria, Libya and other radical Arab states by restoring Jordan's formal ties with Egypt. His thought is that this may lead Iraq (which in the meantime is rumored to be interested in restoring relations with the U.S. after a 17-year break) to follow suit. Although the cautious Jordanian King's policies are slowly shifting, there was still no sign...
...goddess from the Caroline Islands lent to MOMA from Auckland, New Zealand, or the creepy terribilita of the British Museum's figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist what academism could not: shamanistic power, a sense of the numinous. Muttering the spell, even in macaronic form, still provoked a delicious shudder of possibility...