Word: formalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real humaneness and makes a frontal emotional assault that has strong popular appeal. It is indeed the very pull of the thing that, for want of judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has been greatly simplified, the effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality...
Seiler's recommendations were never written down in a formal report but consisted of comments to vice-President Reynolds and Dining Hall Manager Heaman. Some of his minor suggestions, like toasters in Winthrop House, were adopted; proposals for more efficient steam tables were discarded as too costly. Seiler's general opinion, that the food would be greatly improved if the preparation was brought closer to the serving, was discarded as a good but impractical idea...
...aspirants for Cambridge political office who are being supported by the Harvard Liberal Union have rejected a formal HLU endorsement but welcome active campaign backing, Leland J. Schoen '52, HLU publicity director, announced last night...
...magazine, to be composed of people who "aren't interested in building new frontiers in literature" has not as yet organized a formal board. A Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Darrell were all members of the Advocate business board...
...other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living. As the nation grew, Dewey's philosophy had grown with it-highly practical, preaching adjustment to change, made in U.S.A...