Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glory, of which the Battle of Greece was made, was not in the Cretan fabric. This fight was all grimness. The ruses here were dastardly. The British charged that the Germans would make captives walk before them as human shields; the Germans charged that disguised British would wave the swastika in apparent triumph on a hilltop, and when the Germans rallied around the British would cut them down. The British charged that the Germans used Anzac uniforms; the Germans charged that the British tortured prisoners...
...well-known prank concerning a glass of warm water seems to have been perpetrated on my roommate, Murray Lampert, last Friday night. Unfortunately, Murray has convinced himself that he is General Krivitsky, and has therefore transformed what was perhaps an ill-advised stunt into a fabric of international intrigue...
...effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through the fabric of ritualistic lament. Emotion breaks through more strongly in a far more conventional piece, however, the Elegy of Dr. Arne, from the Apollonian Harmony of 1790. A memorial tribute to a friend, the Elegy was written to a pastoral poem by John Gay, which rocks with neo-classic artificialities. Yet despite...
...from a British Civil Service job. She explained that the gowns and hats her girls will wear are not for sale. South American women's-wear houses will be licensed to copy them, providing they agree to do so exclusively in British-made materials. One new British dress fabric the Empire mannequins will show is printed all over with ringing World War II phrases struck off by Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Concerning Eli Whitney, scholars have ginned from history only a few pale fluffs of information. Roger Burlingame, social-minded historian of U. S. invention (Engines of Democracy, etc.), has woven these factual fluffs, plus a few skeins of imaginative ersatz, into an attractive fabric which is part novel, part biography: Whittling Boy-the Story of Eli Whitney...