Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London, a show of masterly formal portraits by Van Dyck...
...Dyck's English portraits, organized by Art Historian Oliver Millar at the National Portrait Gallery in London, shows how well Van Dyck's fluency has lasted. It is a delectable exhibition, though cramped and clumsily installed, and it makes one realize how far the tradition of formal portraiture has declined since the days when Van Dyck epitomized...
...continuing cuts in federal grants have intensified efforts to forge closer links between industry and universities, a group of Harvard officials have begun trying to tackle the many questions of technology transfer. "Their discussion will likely produce--by the end of the current academic year--the first set of formal guidelines for industrial sponsored research at Harvard, settling several issues that until now have been a recurring source of controversy...
While most officials are optimistic about getting formal approval of the guidelines form the faculties this spring. Martin and others acknowledge potential snags at some of the graduate schools. A loss of universal support, however, should not diminish the underlying effect of the rules, which officials hope will be to attract and solidly a number of possible agreements...
Nonetheless, Summers, in his formal capacity as chief domestic aide to Feldstein and in his informal role as confidante to the 42-year-old Harvard professor, is having a lot more say in matters of policy than other people his age. "He couldn't become more senior than he is now" other than by "becoming a member of the Council itself," says one knowledgeable Washington economist...