Word: protocolic
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Sometimes the disenchantment appears by indirection. In the U.N. anniversary week, that reality was made evident by one of the oldest diplomatic devices-a protocol snub. On the final evening of the eleven-day anniversary observance, President Nixon is pinching the visiting U.N. heads of state for a White House dinner. At any rate, when Zubin Mehta conducts the Ninth, Schiller's prophecy will still be unfulfilled...
...earnest determination to uphold the honor of soldiering. The other, 2nd Lieut. Edward Millington (Jeremy Clyde), the son of a general, is disdainfully disenchanted with the military. A kind of Victorian dropout, he intends to get busted and return to the bliss of civilian life. Millington quickly breaks regimental protocol and gets himself cordially detested by everyone from the colonel on down to Drake, his neophyte comrade-in-arms...
Imposing Cast. In the weeks ahead, Hambro is certain to be preoccupied with matters of protocol. From Oct. 14 to 24, when the U.N. formally celebrates its 25th anniversary, between 40 and 70 heads of state are expected to visit the glass-and-steel headquarters on Manhattan's East River...
...taught that women are irrational. What other explanation could there be for the constant yet seemingly unreasonable fighting with girls about possession, jealousy, sexual protocol, social protocol? Why else are mothers so helplessly trying to control, "protect," their children? Why else are secretaries so "self-important" and "bitchy"? That is, howelse can we explain the inhuman relationship we have with women...
After Goldwater's first letter of objection, Rogers promised to support Olsen. The "personally obnoxious" phrase is a term usually reserved to block appointments that are subject to Senate confirmation; Olsen's job would not require Senate approval. Sometimes, by protocol. Senators can effectively use the phrase to stop other appointments if the man involved comes from the Senator's state-but Olsen has never lived in Arizona...