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Still, most of Milbank's judgments are canny and her enthusiasms welcome. The chapter on Claire McCardell, "the first truly American designer," is an admirable essay on the sportswear of the '40s and '50s, on which most American style is based. Equally impressive is her account of Worth's career (1858-95). In a few paragraphs, the author sketches in that formidable designer's world; he learned the art of endless invention by the necessity of dressing the ladies of the French court, who were obliged always to appear in white and never to wear the same toilette twice. Worth...
...verdict "will not close the chapter on investigations," said Emilio Mignone, a leading human rights activist. "It will do just the opposite, prolong them indefinitely." Indeed, attention quickly turned to the 1,700 cases pending against 300 or so lower-ranking military officers charged with carrying out the dirty war. Said Mignone: "There have to be more trials of military leaders...
...like an unsatisfying resolution to Dylan's midlife malaise, but the fact that even as literate a mind as his could unabashedly turn to apocalyptic faith for purpose is cerily unsettling. That Dylan became disenchanted and moved on only confirms that his stop at the pulpit was just another chapter in his unending search...
...Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has elected 24 Harvard seniors to its membership...
Tobias, a History and Literature concentrator, is almost done with the first chapter of her analysis of the development of the egoistic female characters in the novels of George Eliot. She stresses, though, that writing is often not an accurate indication of progress, since many theses have a greater emphasis on research than others...