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Dior minimized the waist not only by means of clever cutting and a mini-corset or guepiere; be padded out the front hip bones and used every known trick of the art of couture in elaborately constructing his models. To add the ultra-feminine look of these costumes, Dior added small flowered hats with veils, high-heeled shoes, colored gloves to match a buttonhole or handkerchief, long slim umbrellas to tone with shoes and bag, and two or four strings of pearls...
...defense against being insulated by new information and folled by memory losses is to establish methods of coping. Cognitive psychologists have formalized these processes a bit. Jerry Bruner, in an essay entitled "Going Beyond the Information Given," illustrates one aspect of the phenomenon with a clever example using a string of numbers: 58121519222629. It doesn't take long to memorize the series if one recognizes that the numbers can be grouped 5-8-12-15-19-22-26-29: i.e., and that the series begins with 5, and that successive numbers are the result of adding...
William G. Perry Jr., professor of education emeritus, wrote a very clever essay defining types of examsmanship. A student who has just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...
Even Harvard professors, whose lives in the past had seemed cloistered and parochial, were beginning to break out of their mold. Numerous bright instructors in government and economics and some senior professors, together with a yearly complement of clever young law graduates serving as law clerks to such Supreme Court justices as Brandeis and Cardoza, had begun to trickle down to Washington to work for the Roosevelt New Deal--a trickle that became a veritable flood during the Second World War and one that has continued unabated ever since...
...CLEVER STAGING and some fine performances bring a freshness to the cliches. As Marsh, Barry Nelson brings a deft comic touch to the role, allowing us to see moments of softness. Only when Nelson tries to sing does the quality drop, but since this seems to be in character it doesn't detract from his portrayal. Dolores Gray's nasal, somewhat harsh voice is rather discordant, but is also in keeping with the arrogant character of the untalented prima donna whose injury opens the road to fame for our heroine Peggy Sawyer, although she often appears a bit too secure...