Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again, Chamberlain has no time for the formal political rallies on which many candidates depend. "I think rallies are useless," he says. "The people who show up at rallies are already on my side, and I'm just plowing the same field over again. I have to spend my time just talking with people, one by one." Laying out his campaign, Chamberlain figures that he can meet and talk to some 200 voters a day and, allowing for 50 days of active campaigning from Labor Day to Election Day, reach 10,000 people...
...pretty as her sisters. Actually, she grew up to be the most celebrated beauty of London society, later impressed the U.S. public by her appearances as the Virgin and as the Nun in Max Reinhardt's 1924 production of The Miracle. She was spared the rigors of a formal education, and to this day claims that her spelling is so phonetic that when she has a cold she writes Bs for Ms. Her father, the Eighth Duke, seems to have been a dull dog. But this was England of two generations ago, and when a duke spoke, people listened...
Dulles was concerned, too, about the transparent Communist Chinese attempts to drive a wedge between the Nationalists and their U.S. ally. So was Chiang Kaishek, who called reporters into his austere Formosa office for one of his rare formal statements: "If we have to evacuate Quemoy and Matsu under pressure, not only the Chinese people but all people of Asia would lose confidence in America. Anti-Communists living on the mainland would also be disillusioned...
...formal communique did not go into the question of Chiang's cutting his forces on the offshore islands. But new dispatches from Taipei said it was learned Chiang had agreed to consider this step if the Communists silence their guns...
Even now, the GSAS catalog recommends that the qualifying examinations be completed after three years, and the Faculty in the spring of 1957 defined the Ph.D. "less in terms of formal courses" than it had previously done. Anticipating the CEP plan of last spring, the Faculty voted an increase in independent work: only eight half courses in the first two years were required rather than sixteen...