Word: creations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...
...arches of the eye, whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah. The externalised Logos [Word] is a sort of promise that the outside world fits our thoughts. Christ walked on the water and the doves of Noah's ark and of the Holy Spirit before creation brooded over it; the idea is that you control the disorder of the outside world by sharing it and delighting...
...Houses were once intended to promote undergraduate education, the report says, but "the role of the Houses . . . has come out of focus." Three ways in which the Houses can live up to their original purpose, the committee states, are 1) the creation of intimate discussion groups, with "six to ten men, a case of beer, and an instructor or two"; 2) teaching of courses right in the Houses; and 3) centering tutorial and advisory in the Houses...
...great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film. Maxwell Anderson's current creation on Broadway may create a new Henry for the popular taste, but so far the Laughton version still rules. Elsa Lanchester, Laughton...
Back in 1946-47, flush with $1.2 billion in war-accumulated balances, Argentina had negotiated trade agreements with Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru. To many, it looked like a good beginning for the creation of a satellite bloc. But most of these lavish deals were never ratified or carried through; by last week it was clear that they had accomplished nothing...