Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans as their friends. In 1946, as half-starved schoolchildren, we saw American trucks drive onto our school playground at 11 o'clock every morning with food. I met my wife at a dancing class where I wore a suit that was a Quaker donation. My wife wore a dress that was much too big for her and also an American donation. And now it was in November 40 years later that I was at the White House. I told (President Reagan) this May 8 would be a very difficult time for us, when we would look back...
...find a greater number of people look the same, dress the same, and have similar goals, and this homogeneity can only lead to the apocalyptic conclusion that we all might think the same...
...easy to be like others, to dress like others, because it gives us a sense of connection: ties to each other that give us security and stability in an age of uncertainty. At the same time, such conformity can make you feel like a micropreppie in the greater scheme of Preppiness. I remember going to a party last year where two other guys had the same rugby shirt as the one I was wearing, and I felt pretty stupid. It's a bit Orwellian to walk into a party where everyone is wearing the same thing...
...dress code forbidding Guess jeans, Athletic Department sweats or "Yale Sucks" T-shirts was strictly enforced. If schollars wanted to leave their chambers, they had to don their somewhat they coate, gowne and cloake...
...fanatic, has already hinted that he may relax, though not repeal, the imposition of Islamic law. One immediate example: last week government television screened a Middle Eastern version of a Las Vegas nightclub act, complete with gyrating Lebanese dancers and a blond Syrian songstress who wore a sleeveless dress...