Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing at a panel discussion on Henry Ford's old Fairlane estate (a $5,000,000, 56-room tax headache turned over to the University of Michigan), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee applied a tidy syllogism to the automaker's most famous pronouncement. "Well," said Toynbee, "Henry Ford is history. History is bunk. Therefore, by his logic, he is bunk...
Despite the little nothing's popularity among such habitue es of the best-dressed lists as Mrs. Winston ("Cee-Zee") Guest and Audrey Hepburn, not all designers are infatuated with it. 'The little nothing is becoming a uniform." says Arnold Scaasi. "Women today want to wear 'something' -that special dress that makes them look young, glamorous and pretty.'' Reports the New York Herald Tribune's alert women's feature editor. Eugenia Sheppard: "Husbands even say that the little nothing is just a misnomer for that little rag." The little-nothing effect...
Dudley House: Seaman P Malin, William H. Chafe, Brian L. Villa, Ernest C. Black, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Robert C. Twombly, Gregory G. Tallas...
...that point, up before the American Council rose a gentile with a controversial notion. Said British Historian Arnold Toynbee: If Jew and non-Jew alike were to give up all feelings of ethnic "apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form and not in the derivative forms in which it is presented in Christianity and Islam," he argued. "If the abandonment of ethnic reservations were complete and genuine on both sides, the traditional caste barrier between Jews and non-Jews would be likely to be broken down by more and more frequent...
...skin is almost audible as they rub their hands over a colleague's failure to sustain a thesis, his reliance on a wrong date, a superseded document or, better still, a bogus one. An expert on the receiving end of this kind of abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times, and popularity is a crown most scholars professionally deplore with the same fervor that they secretly pray...