Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of the new policies is far from completely mapped. But from the hints of direction, it is clear that the U.S. is well on the way to fulfilling a seemingly casual remark that the President made to the newspaper editors after his formal speech: "It is necessary that we find better, more effective ways of keeping ourselves in tune with the world's needs...
...ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford...
...council began weighing the merits of Holford's proposal, the Times rumbled: "The case against a formal design for the setting of St. Paul's has not been satisfactorily made out." But on the whole, Londoners seemed more pleased than disappointed that the new setting fell short of matching the grandeur that is Rome. Commented the London Observer: "The Anglican Church is rather different. So is the forecourt of St. Paul's; it is the place where the Dean and the Mayor say 'How d'ye do' to the Queen...
...court yard for an open air dance. Kirkland will demand costumes for a masquerade Saturday. A cabaret will give Dunster a French touch with small tables placed about the rooms. Students will be allowed to bring drinks. Leverett, Adams, Dudley, Winthrop, and Eliot will hold to convention with formal dances Saturday...
Attempts to provide special sections in Math 1 illustrate the need for greater faculty responsiveness to student needs, the group felt. The difficult procedure of drawing up formal petitions to secure modifications in the course could have been circumvented if a central group existed to consult with Faculty, David G. Taylor '57, of the Adams group, maintained...