Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite such worries, a large number of Congressmen and Senators of both parties happen to agree with Reagan that the Marines should be in Lebanon, at least for the moment. For political reasons, the President would welcome some formal congressional support for his policies, but not at the price of losing the right to keep the Marines in Lebanon as long as he judges it to be necessary. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts offered a resolution that would authorize Reagan to maintain the Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months, after which he would have...
...have traditionally enjoyed wide latitude in sending U.S. troops into dangerous situations, and Congress has rarely complained. But in the early 1970s, many legislators were troubled that Presidents Johnson and Nixon had been able to send hundreds of thousands of American troops into combat in Viet Nam without a formal declaration of war. When the Watergate scandal broke, Congress was emboldened to put limits on such presidential prerogatives and to assert its own power...
...homo, meaning person or being, and vir. referring to the sexual side. For women there was only one word, femina. It carried the second, sexual sense; no way existed for referring to a woman merely as a person. French has preserved but varied the gap; the only formal words for female people are those which also mean "daughter" or "wife," In English, as it happens, we lack such an immediate, glaring linguistic wrong. But that happenstance merely makes the gap more difficult to see; subtler equivalents abound...
Today, surrounded by art that rejects formal grace in the interest of narrative, contradiction and hyperbole, we are conditioned to see a different Manet. In eyes that have viewed DeChirico's train stations, for instance, Manet's painting of a woman and a child at the Gare St.-Lazare acquires a strangeness that contradicts his intention of painting a peaceful urban scene. The grown woman stares at the painter, the little girl turns her back and gazes raptly through the iron bars into an industrial future, full of clamor and swift disjunction. For each phase of modernism there...
Manet's greatness as a formal artist and no other word for his achievement will do, is not to be predicated solely on the way his work anticipated the desires of later painters. The paintings, seen in themselves, do not look so very flat anyway. As Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson points out in one of the catalogue's searching essays, they reproduce flatter than they are. In reality, "surface qualities come into play . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight...