Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first act is staged much as Dame Edith Sitwell first performed the play in 1923 to a baffled and exasperated audience in Aeolian Hall in London. The stage is mysteriously covered in movers' white sheets, while the excellent six-piece orchestra (directed by John Major) playfully accompanies in formal black at the center of the stage. Bill Cavness, a local television personality, does the reading, pirouetting through twenty-one highly rhymed, highly rhythmic and almost nonsensical poems. The first act is appropriately restrained and understated, with the audience's attention focused on the music of the words and the orchestra...
...Formal review by the Economic Policy Group-a Cabinet-level panel analogous to the National Security Council-of the economic impact of virtually all proposed Government actions. Carter has already tried to pull the plug on as many as 30 regional water projects; he came out for a modest 20? boost in the minimum wage, to $2.50; he rejected the request of the International Trade Commission for higher duties on imported shoes (see ESSAY...
...reaccelerate inflation, and do as much as you can to slow it down." The program will not be quite as voluntary as the Administration would have businessmen believe, and may not be as effective as Carter hopes. But it does have the virtue of avoiding formal controls, and the new attempt to see that the Government does not add unnecessarily to business's cost is a sign of progress...
...preference to trade barriers, President Carter is trying to work out agreements with other nations to cut back exports that genuinely harm home industries. This is no easy undertaking; last week in Tokyo, U.S. negotiations with Japan over color-TV sets broke down, at least temporarily. Such in formal arrangements, based on cooperation instead of retaliation, represent something of a concession to protectionism, but they are sometimes necessary to avoid its worst excesses...
...community) Sennett merely fabricates a new definition. Public life "flowers" in Sennett's world when the proper "balance" is found between the public and private realms. The material for these conditions existed, according to Sennett, in 18th century London where citizens created through women's elaborate wigs, men's formal coffeehouse speech and other observable social signals a system that was commonly understood...