Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazement of many, however, the first formal conclave of the new united organization was marked by a serene meeting of minds between the former heads of the AFL and CIO. Both George Meany and Walter Reuther spoke of the internal amity and potential of the newly-built AFL-CIO. More significantly, both agreed fully on the important subject of labor's future in politics. They attacked the recent statement of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, that the AFL-CIO had "no right to endorse a political nominee" and his suggestion that labor be "politically disfranchised." Reuther replied to Goldwater directly...
...singing chorus is usually inarticulate, due partly to John Hollander's music; the dancing chorus, while legitimately formal, appears vapid against the strident actors; Cedric Whitman's translation hits the bump that jolts all colloquial renderings. The Greek dramatists are often not colloquial. They are, however, very, too, clever...
...Washington, the State Department preferred to take the line that Communist Commandant Dibrova's attitude had not yet been supported by higher Russian authority, and therefore did not constitute a formal abrogation of Soviet obligations. The State Department's attitude is that the Russians usually feel things out carefully in Berlin before doing something drastic: perhaps Conant's flying of the flag would cause them to think twice. Instead, at week's end the Russians applied the squeeze a little tighter. The East German regime refused to renew the annual permits under which West German barges...
...denial of any choice in the appointment of her leaders, and insidious secularism which results from the constant attempt to impose upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications for the post; in the last 40 years they have included "a Welsh Baptist, a Scottish Presbyterian, a Unitarian, and now a man who has defied the church by remarrying after divorce...
...formal study of the modern Middle East required, first of all, the establishment of boundaries--even if the are somewhat artificial. From Iran in the east, the Center includes all of the traditional "Near East," as well as Egypt in North Africa. Frye hopes the Center will expand into Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other areas of Africa, but for the present, the Center is somewhat overwhelmed by the areas already included...