Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a great deal of obscurity in modern writing which could be cleared up if writers could be forced (only by criticism) to develop a skill in making positive statement . . . whether in verse or in prose. Statement may make art great and ought not to be subject to fashion...
Knowledge of the new look paid off last week for Marilyn R. Starkman, Radcliffe '49, as she received honorable mention in the ninth competition for Fashion Fellowships offered annually by the Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers, New York City...
...industry. So far, he has had poor cooperation. Clothiers, particularly women's dress manufacturers, refuse to face anthropometric facts. They persist in designing garments on "model forms" which have little resemblance to real female bodies. They assume that women will change their shapes with the shifting moods of fashion. It makes life pretty difficult, Mr. Lonie hinted, for a serious anthropometrist...
...Chekhov developed his stories. When he writes, "A young man made a million marks, lay down on them, and shot himself," the reader is in the authentic Chekhov atmosphere. Occasionally, as in the letters, Chekhov drops his attitude of severe objectivity and speaks about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly, it's not so dull, and besides, neither of them loses anything...
...lacks audacity and fascination. As Macbeth, British Cinemactor Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra, The Captive Heart) mauls the part and even does something to mar the play. His Macbeth is violent without being intense, neurotic without seeming imaginative; and taking Shakespeare's great lines in slow but unsure fashion, he strangles the poetry...