Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dance: Cazenove Hall Semi-Formal 9 pm-2 am, live band, admission...
...essays Gardner is identifying himself with a long tradition of critics like Matthew Arnold who tried to diagnose the ills of their societies. And Gardner's calls for "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" are not far removed from Arnold's famous celebration of "sweetness and light." But Gardner lacks the formal power, the rhetorical skill which Arnold employed to make the abstract palatable and comprehensible. Gardner's book is structureless. The divisions between chapters are arbitrary, and just about the only overall element of the book that seems planned is the appearance of Thor's hammer at start and finish...
Monday the Trustees' Executive Committee of Radcliffe College considered the Harvard Corporation's recently released report on South Africa, and decided informally to approve it, although the Committee has taken no formal action on the report, Radcliffe administrators said yesterday...
They all considered the Corporation's decision on divestiture an unacceptable policy, and they all cared enough to do something about it, despite their lack of formal leadership. By the start of the working day, the four flights of stairs to U-Hall were entirely filled with protesters. Another 250 people picketed the building, forming a human wall around...
...same sense of irony enlivens the author's view of American writing. In a history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he describes a long forgotten poet and overstuffed shirt. Appointed permanent secretary of the Academy, the litterateur wrote a formal acceptance to himself, signed: "Very respectfully yours, Robert Underwood Johnson...