Word: formally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though no formal friendship pact between the U.S. and Rumania was negotiated during President Nixon's visit to Bucharest, Rumanians seemed convinced last week that one had been signed, sealed and delivered. In an informal sense, it had. The images of Nixon's tour would remain for a long time. People folded away newspaper clippings showing a smiling Nixon with Rumanian shoppers and folk dancers (see color). They held onto the miniature U.S. flags handed out for the President's reception. Well into the week, at least one Bucharest shopwindow was still decorated with a homemade...
Doxiadis attempted to give shape to the discussions, and his daily summing up was accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will...
...Delos a waste? No: if the formal meetings lack unity and direction, Dox-iadis still performs a considerable service by bringing together brilliant, informed, influential people and giving them time to teach and invigorate one another. Much of the payoff occurs between the regular sessions when the participants freely exchange new ideas and form new intellectual friendships. Delos may be pretentious; it is also fun, and the experience is bound to affect urban crises throughout the world...
...boughten friendship goes on at the box office; Wayne will continue to provide, provide at the rate of two pictures a year. And at the final fadeout? "I would like to be remembered?well, the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo, fuerte y formal.' Which means: he was ugly, was strong and had dignity...
...marijuana, and has since arduously campaigned for its legalization. As a pacifist, he has crusaded for an immediate end to the war in Viet Nam. As a lecturer and reader, he is in constant demand at progressive campuses across the nation, where he is apt to deliver a formal talk in the university auditorium, then forgather with a more committed group for a symposium where he sets a tone of informality by occasionally taking off all his clothes and encouraging his interlocutors to do likewise. This may or may not be accompanied by the chanting of a mantra...