Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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secretary: I notice in the papers that Radcliffe girls are allowed to ask two extra young men to their formal dance...
Secretary (warming to her subject): Let me finish. Isn't that what the smoker is for, after all, and here you get the same effect with no chance of a disturbance. Why, I've heard several students say that nothing untoward ever happens at a Radcliffe formal...
Erwin Bodky's performance displayed an approach of absolute seriousness and purity toward the music. The attraction of instrumental color was avoided by using a bare string orchestra. The tempi were uniformly slow so as to attain the highest awareness of the formal complexity within each of the fourteen fugues performed. Yet at the same time, the playing, especially through its attention to tonal color and phrasing, attained such a level of devotion and warmth that the audience could not help but be moved to a closer contact with the music by the example of the performers...
Eden had high hopes that the accords would go through unanimously. Herbert Morrison pledged Labor's official support. The Bevanites, voted down in party caucus before the debate, were under threat of party discipline. Attlee, like Eden, hoped to avoid trouble by avoiding a formal vote in the House...
When the Speaker of the House, calling for a voice vote, heard a thin scattertering of noes, he ordered a formal vote. As Eden watched glumly, 263 Tories trooped into the voting lobby, trailed by one Socialist. Four pacifist Socialists made their lonely way to the other lobby to vote no; the rest of the Laborites kept their places. Attlee sat slumped on the front bench, doodling and looking unhappy. He had prevented a larger rebellion in Labor's ranks, but had left his party in the craven position of refusing to vote for agreements it had publicly supported...