Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Council Treasurer John A. Burton '01, the council makes check requests "after every major council allocation" such as those for the first-year formal and Thanksgiving shuttle buses...
Alexis B. Karteron '01 spoke out against the administration's newly implemented Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutor program, because she said the tutors do not receive any formal training in assisting rape victims...
When translating the poem's "pre-chivalric diction," then, Heaney tried to leave his "Ulster fingerprints" on it, to reintroduce Beowulf in the formal, but simple, idiom of his father's relatives. "Scullions," according to Heaney, had just as much right to Beowulf as the Early English Text Society. After all, the geographically-defined "England" does not exclusively own what is called the English language. Though he is considered an Irish poet, Heaney's medium is exactly that language which is not contained by national boundaries...
...which introduced Couperin's La Pie'montoise. According to Galway, one wrong movement of the finger could cause a person to literally lose his or her head. These comic lectures, intended to make the concert more accessible to those with a limited knowledge of classical music, greatly decreased the formal atmosphere of the concert hall; he requested that people not clap between movements for fear that it would appear that there was nepotism in the audience...
...writing and the writer. Unfortunately, many of the proposed alternative constructions...also stick out." For example, writers commit stylistic suicide if they repeatedly use the clunky "he or she" ("If anyone wants to, he or she can pick up his or her paper after lecture") or the dull, formal "one" ("If anyone wants to, one can pick up one's paper...