Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the Garden of Eden, Eve's descendants have covered themselves sensibly and attractively only twice-with the Greek chiton 2,000 years ago and, in the late '50s, with the designs of Balenciaga. Now in their "liberated" period, women seem more eager than ever to become enslaved to the follies and fads of the fops of fashion...
Gavin's campaign has culminated in the current exhibit. "Danzig: 1939," an artistic and photographic record of the Jewish community in that city on the eve of World War Two, and the surfacing of the museum on the upper floors...
...contemporary Peg Riley (in William Bendix's The Life of Riley, 1953-58) stayed home too, despite the constant money worries stemming from Riley's modest wage as a riveter. And the handful of working women in '50s TV were mostly man-hungry spinsters like Eve Arden's schoolteacher in Our Miss Brooks (1952-56) and Ann B. Davis' jill-of-all-trades Schultzy in the Bob Cummings Show...
...scattered among dining halls to ask people to vote, the talk was glib. "Too busy to vote?" and "It's Your Ass" condescended leaflets, and the minimal dialogue never delved into the constitution's substance. The result was an approving but wholly uninformed electorate. A Crimson poll on the eve of the election found that only 39 percent of a random 372 undergraduates had even read the constitution much less scrutinized or discussed it. Even more disheartening was another poll of 199 students, conducted last week. It revealed that half were unaware of the referendum's 50 percent turnout requirement...
...museum, located at 6 Divinity Ave., launches what supporters hope will be a new era of greater attention to Semitic studies at Harvard with a special exhibit documenting the plight of the Jewish community in Danzig which was forced to emigrate on the eve of World...