Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...past year Shirley has studied at the Westlake School for Girls, a private country day school for daughters of polite Los Angeles families. There she has made her first real acquaintance with her own generation. Friends already observe subtle changes in her personality. She wears long dresses to formal school dances and tolerates women who gush: "Shirley, I hope my daughter grows up to be just like...
Until the Student Council was founded in 1908, the undergraduate body had no formal machinery for voicing its opinions. As the initiator of many reforms in the College community, it has lately felt a need for a better way of empressing undergraduate opinion on the Administration...
This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...
...relatives, more privately and far more shakily, in the thought of meeting Goethe once more, in the full-blown, chilly grandeur of his age. She is besieged by gawpers, beset by callers who wish to talk to and make some use of her; Goethe stages, in her honor, a formal luncheon; she meets him again, more intimately, in his theatre box; and that...
...with blank and awful irony, the effects of genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with a finality, a bland cruelty, at which Marcel Proust might gasp...