Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horror. At year's end Delacroix' place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...
...average general practitioner is not necessarily careless when, after a long day of rounds and "office hours, he dozes over the medical journals which are supposed to keep him up to date on his profession. Even the widely read (circ. 130,000) Journal of the American-Medical Association is printed in forbiddingly long columns and crammed with purposefully dull medical jargon, often in small type. Its illustrations are hard-to-read charts or muddy photographs...
...Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer of the prostate). They used a three-color cartoon of a topi-topped explorer cutting off an orchid, laboriously explained that orchis is Greek for testicle...
...people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...
...syndicate was even more annoyed and upset than Harper's Bazaar. It accused Vogue of breaking by three weeks a "gentlemen's agreement" on the fashion release date, indignantly described the action as "a moral abuse of confidence." What worried the French designers was the prospective loss of thousands of dollars' worth of business: they were afraid that U.S. designers would flood the U.S. market with copies before their originals could make the boat. At week's end, the syndicate had reportedly decided on a stern punishment: banning Editor Jessica Daves of the American edition...