Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...read Snow's novels could think him a dull dog, or a man who has not known conflict. But in the presence of the physical man, the "four square" appearance of a "solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature," the "solid, rational decorum," the interrogative "Mnunmm . . ." turning into a clearing of the throat, that knowledge wavers. Yet finally something comes from the man, more I think from the eyes than else-where, which restores conviction, and one knows again that accretions of fame and power have not calcified his curiosity or entombed his human sympathies...
...pulpit to police court and from the choir loft to the girls, upstairs, needs much more adroit handling than it gets. Again and again, gaiety is left waiting at the church door, and even sin turns tedious when it is allowed to talk. More and more, as virtue and decorum triumph, interest flags, color fades, and toughness is deprived of its teeth...
...national leaders and heads of state at the United Nations 15th General Assembly meeting had grown to 26, and there were more to come. Spinning round them like a sputtering Sputnik was Nikita Khrushchev himself-tossing off dire threats in curbstone interviews, dishing out amiable insults, and defiling the decorum of the U.N. with desk-pounding, finger-waggling interruptions...
...them cant about decorum...
Paul Butler, outgoing Democratic national chairman, in charge of the Los Angeles show: "Some people were upset about the lack of decorum on the convention floors. We Americans are not very well behaved in large groups...