Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star Manhattan Designer Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings to match the best Queen Anne and Louis Quatorze with sleek modern. By this year most other companies had gotten into the act, were turning out their own handsome lines in native American woods. An outspoken critic (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) of both fake antique and engine-room modern, Robsjohn-Gibbings sounded off for Grand Rapids modern last week. Said he: "People aren't fools. In general, the public taste is right and we must realize that modern furniture must be designed on the public's terms...
...Temptation. Barth has insisted that Communism presents a far different problem to Christianity than did Naziism (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). To support Naziism, he said, was a "temptation" for Christians; the Nazis invited support with a fake veneer of Christianity. But since the Communists are frankly opposed to religion, and Christians are hardly tempted to endorse Communism, Barth feels that the church is not obliged to add its voice to the anti-Communist denunciations of politicians...