Word: astonishment
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This is the quotation the President keeps on his desk: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, & astonish the rest. Truly yours. Mark Twain." In addition to the Golden Rule, to which he refers constantly, this seems to be the conscious basis of his policy...
...were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...
Nevertheless, there was still plenty to astonish. Some designers-notably Balenciaga-showed dresses, including evening gowns, with split skirts worn over torea-dorlike pantaloons. For the hot-weather trade, Schiaparelli featured an evening dress with a transparent blouse under which only a black brassière was worn...
...Harvard Student Council is not God. This statement will astonish nobody except-the Harvard Student Council. Last Week that august organization, acting as if it were authorized and sanctioned from on high, held a closed meeting at which it removed Robert C. Fisher from the Council-operated NSA delegation. And it brought out of its closed session such an opaque and vague list of reasons--apparently based to some extent on information that has never been made public--that the student body, who elected Fisher, received no adequate idea of why he was impeached. Probably his impeachment was justified...
Radcliffe undergraduates in Harvard surroundings astonish almost no one in 1948. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences seems to endure--perhaps in some cases even to enjoy--teaching members of both sexes. Administrative circles have gone so far as to mix females into seating plans instead of blocking them into a corner. In fact, academically speaking, there remains only one prominent sore spot in Harvard-Radcliffe relations: libraries...