Word: 1940s
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...again. Lonergan: Juicy Couture sweat suits. I just donated mine. FM: The 80s are back. So, apparently, are the 40s. And Vogue said something about the color red? What are you buying this fall that’s on trend? Baird: High-waisted skinny jeans. Very 1940s. Lonergan: I’m looking for some chunky gold jewelry. I think it’s coming back. Dagogo-Jack: I avoid trends. FM: The weather in Cambridge sucks—rain, sleet, snow. What do you wear when the elements threaten to ruin your night? el Habashy: I don?...
...them. I buy what I love." This season the owners summon their New York roots with the arrival of Brooklyn-made suits designed by Urbinati and Albert Hammond Jr. of the garage band the Strokes. The small collection is made with classic fabrics and vintage 1940s styling. "Albert is incredibly dapper and passionate about suits," says Urbinati...
...unfettered poetry by which he conveys his experiences buoys the text into the realm of the genuinely distinctive. Hoffmann underscores his intimacy with the story, which closely parallels his own life, by sharing his name with the narrator. The reader enters the narrator’s life during the 1940s. Living in what would become Israel, Hoffmann’s mother dies in the first line while British soldiers mill around the fringes of his memory. As is his wont, the speaker transmits his reactions to the moments that are most eventful by way of the images he recalls alongside...
...Because it hurts the case for discrimination. Japanese-Americans, who lived in internment camps in the 1940s, earned as much as whites by 1959; their experience suggests that discrimination is less of a barrier, that race is less of a determinant of individual well being, and that political power is less of an antidote to societal ills than is frequently thought...
...Roaring Twenties had its “live-ball” era, with oversized sluggers like Ruth and Gehrig hitting home runs at previously unimaginable rates as the country experienced the climax of its first Gilded Age. The 1940s saw Americans invest in “total war,” which came to include even baseball’s brightest stars, including Ted Williams, who volunteered for active duty. The postwar period, as has been noted and honored with such frequency as to become perfunctory and cliché, saw the integration of baseball and with it, the opening...