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...advertising last year, despite its costly, strike-born blackout, and accounted for more than 10% of the newspaper's total ad revenues. When the 15-week newspaper strike ended in April, the magazine returned with a robust, 200-page issue, fattest in its history. Department-store buyers, fabric makers and dress manufacturers all over the country read it avidly for the ads that tip them off to what's hot in the fashion capital of the U.S. Largely because of this clientele, the Times's Sunday circulation outside New York City is more than...
Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...
...different interpretation of the record, William O. Douglas delivered a dissent so violent that it visibly jolted other members of the court. Black's opinion, said Douglas, "will, I think, be marked as the baldest attempt by judges in modern times to spin their own philosophy into the fabric of the law." By giving the U.S. Secretary of the Interior power to adjudicate Arizona-California water issues, said Douglas, the court majority was granting "the federal bureaucracy" something "it has never had but always wanted." The attack was all the more startling because Douglas, himself an old hand...
...cavalierly dismiss James as naive and rambling. One can grimace at pragmatism as aesthetically grubby. But one does so only at peril of missing a most valuable set of lessons. The trinitarianism of James offers real hope for re-weaving the tangled threads of Western culture into a coherent fabric. And the emphasis on pure experience assures one that such a fabric would remain bright unfaded, vital. It is these two aspects of the thought of James that demand our closest attention. And it is these two aspects that compel us to recognize him as Harvard's greatest intellectual...
...said that the way for the West to achieve such a shift was not through direct military action, but through "the utilization and unification of its immense human and material resources, to strengthen the internal fabric of the free societies." Not only would this make the democracies "impregnable to external ideological assault," but also "magnetic examples of social justice and material well-being for the entire world...