Word: punctilio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand punctilio of high-bosomed dreadnoughts like Emily Post had been unraveling for years, of course. But to many of the young in the '60s, the laid-back luftmenschen of the counterculture, manners were as superfluous as flatware at McDonald's (the late 20th century's reversion to its fingers) or linen napkins at the Donner Pass. To this last half-generation, manners were sexist, hypocritical...
...recent tour of what "Jimmy" thought and what "Jimmy" meant to do. When "Jimmy" was in London for the economic summit, he went out of his way to get on a first-name basis with a difficult character named "Helmut." But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, with chilly punctilio, insisted on calling Carter "Mr. President." Tass, the Soviet news agency, would have none of the amiable diminutive either; in the course of attacking his human rights policy, Tass has haughtily referred to Rosalynn's husband as "President James Carter...
...ceremony was as determinedly British as it might have been in the era of the Raj. In a singular display of military punctilio, the new field marshal even received a congratulatory cable from the Pakistan army chief of staff, General Tikka Khan, who was military governor of East Pakistan when the war with India began. Like Manekshaw, Tikka Khan is a graduate of the Indian Military Academy, India's equivalent of Sandhurst. It was all, as the British might say, "a jolly good show...
...opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...