Word: protocolic
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...understand it, the Core report will be made public as soon as it is formally introduced to the Faculty. The justification for the confidentiality was delivered to myself and other members of the Educational Resource Group (ERG) by Associate Dean Glen W. Bowersock; he explained that a breach of protocol might irritate Faculty members to such a degree that the Core Proposal could be jeopardized. Since students will shortly learn the contents of the report, and since actual decisions are not expected in the near future, there seems to be little need to endanger the proposal by releasing the material...
...readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney's patrician white walls or sprawl on its carpet with the air of social intruders. One reacts to them first as people, because of their verisimilitude; then, after one's gaze has gone by them-social protocol discourages staring at people as sculptures are stared at-the double take happens, and because they are in a museum they are reclassified as "sculpture." Finally they turn out to be neither...
Carter's only serious crime, then, is Optimism in the first degree. Despite his lust for Washington's power, he was an outsider in the true sense of the world. Oblivious to elitist protocol and disdainful of pork-barrel politics, he innocently seemed to believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable...
There is in all of this the welcome dismissal of the stultifying protocol that has kept nations and men starched and stiff and at arm's length for too long. There is a new understanding of modern tools?the jet plane, the telephone, satellites and television. There is, too, something more profound. Most of the men and women who preside over the affairs of this globe sincerely believe, despite their vast differences, that no people or nation or political party ever benefits from hatred, or ever really wins...
...special assistant to the President. In the Green Book, married women are never allowed to be listed under their maiden names; that would give the Wrong Idea. Divorcing couples are barred from the register until their legal tangles are settled. But because the Green Book also serves as a protocol guide and automatically lists anyone ranked Assistant Secretary and up, an exception had to be made in order to include Michael Blumenthal, who is getting divorced, in his capacity as Secretary of the Treasury...