Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transformation. The bleakness of the depression years, the depredations of world war, the nationalization of the mines--these provide the backdrop against which Storey's characters move. The landscape Storey describes is not only social, but literary: beside the stolidity of a Lawrentian mining village, he sets the formal rigidity of a Dickensian public school, with its masters almost comic in their severity. Through this landscape flits the mystical figure of Stafford, Colin's foil, who, like Dickens' Steerforth, sloughs off the spoils of his prosperity and talent with the same ease with which they accrue...
...phantom issues are mostly conjured up by the pro-ERA press. A good example is the new phantom issue manufactured by TIME, namely, that my "Stop ERA" brigades "have descended on legislators ... wearing long formal dresses...
...testified at many state legislative hearings, and I have never yet appeared in a long formal dress...
During four formal sessions over two days, the seven heads of government met in the wood-paneled state dining room of the Prime Minister's residence. Each leader was accompanied by his foreign affairs and economics ministers. Vance and Blumenthal thus flanked Carter, while experts like National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss were on call nearby. Between the meetings, ministerial-level officials conferred on special problems. Vance, for instance, huddled with British Foreign Secretary David Owen on strategy for a peaceful solution to the racial troubles in Rhodesia...
...conference, acknowledges that the Detroit meeting "tended to increase polarization and factionalism" in some quarters. Nonetheless, last fall he named a task force of bishops to figure out what response should be made. The behind-the-scenes struggle centered on preparation of a statement giving the hierarchy's formal views on the issues. The statement of response went through seven drafts. One version, completed in March, had a "Neanderthal" view of the church, in the opinion of Bishop James Rausch of Phoenix, the former general secretary of the bishops' national staff...