Word: adornment
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Bolshevichka today gleams with pride: flowers adorn each work table, the walls are freshly painted and adorned with photographs of its workers shaking hands with Party bigwigs, who arrive in ever increasing numbers to see the miracle that has come to pass. To one and all, beaming Director Petr Noskov reports that Bolshevichka's profit margin has risen to 7%, that the average pay is up from $94 a month to $110, and that the factory is now making better suits at a cheaper price ($85 v. $96) and are (oh, that Capitalist idiom) "selling like hot cakes...
...Radcliffe rejection of family life, which you so justifiably abhor. You worry about the pernicious effects of this attitude and its self-perpetuating nature upon young women. Yet in your very sketch of that "magic solution--each woman's recognition of and respect for that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife," is manifested a positively terrifying distortion as damnable as any "Madison Avenue glorification of domestic details." Methinks you have cerebralized too much. A bit of objective rationality, in plain English, horsesense, is in order. Perhaps we intellectuals can afford to conceive of marriage and homelife...
...housewife and a possible remedy for this attitude. Of course, an increased number of off-campus houses and apartments would develop enjoyment of, and pride in, the challenges of running a home. The magic solution is each woman's recognition of and respect for that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife
Divinity as Beauty. Lips lift in a sublime smile, torsos twist into reverse curves that enliven flesh, and ornament clings to smoothly modeled skin like a caress of art given to nature. Beauty was a reflection of divinity, just as the slender saints that adorn Chartres cathedral are the disembodied spirits of medieval Christianity...
From the South in recent years has come a corolla of gifted young novelists. Latest to adorn this company is Heather Ross Miller, 25, from North Carolina's Uwharrie River Country, where her first novel is laid. Heroine Anna Marie is obsessed by the memory of "Paw-Paw," her grandfather, "a stingy old man with a soul of tempered steel." When she is scarcely ten years old, Anna Marie stumbles upon "dirty old Paw-Paw" making love to his second wife. Later she watches from a hiding place when the half-crazed old man murders his wife and Anna...