Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status symbol" and "uniform of intellectuals," the dress is supposed to reflect a "sophisticated plicity." It is designed for the hand-screened cotton fabric from which it is made. (Ordinarily, a fabric is designed for a particular dress.) Marimekkos are sexy by implication rather than by cut. They belong in the never-never land between the housedress and the beach shift--or at least they did last season...
...matters of faith, U.S. Presidents have ranged from fundamentalist to High Church, from mavericks to doubters. Lincoln discovered a tortured personal belief after anguished self-searching. Rutherford B. Hayes seemed proud to say "I belong to no church," though he refused to be publicly inaugurated on the scheduled day because it fell on a Sunday, and later attended the Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. James A. Garfield was not only a member of the Disciples of Christ but a minister, whose success as a preacher led to his success as a political crowd pleaser...
...they live in Los Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing day out of a set of static and pointless lives, showing a lost people who imitate the language of Negroes as if in aspiration to belong to a higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine...
...Justice does not belong exclusively to the criminal. Society as a whole is also entitled to justice." These were the key sentences in Arizona Lawyer Charles N. Ronan's opening remarks at the annual convention of the National District Attorneys' Association in Phoenix. Ronan, who is the D.A. in Phoenix, argued that concern for the rights of criminals must be balanced by concern for society's interests. "The time has come," he said, "to balance the scales...
...secretly smiling at Sophia. Beneath a rather juicy sense of fun he conceals a very dry sense of humor. Dry is the word for Marcello's humor too-time and again he gives up a laugh to get a grin. Smart feller. In this picture the laughs belong to Sophia...