Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer's entertainment schedule, will be the annual Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Here symphony, choral and chamber music concerts will be given for six weeks, July 4 (this Wednesday) to August 12, on what the press agent calls "the spacious pine-clad estate where a century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne was a guest and told his 'Tanglewood Tales...
...them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would be in a good position to say a few words in favor of Pakistan's claim to Kashmir...
Then the bomb burst. Whatever the rules in Pakistan called for, it was learned that in California the contestants would have to appear, clad only in bathing suits, before men, women and a TV audience of millions, "to have their physical appearances assessed and judged as in a cattle market," as the Times of Karachi put it. "A disgrace to the Eastern social order and conventions," proclaimed the head of the powerful Brotherhood of Mullahs. In the face of the uproar, the contest promoters gave up. "We are back in Victorian error," sighed...
...stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise had been a capable, serious-minded government secretary. Jacques, an illegitimate child whose parents had married only as an afterthought, was a graduate of Saint-Cyr, an artillery lieutenant...
...clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades...