Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up in the school of daily journalism before it was the fashion to qualify names used in news stories with derogatory designations. In your piece on the recent visit of a group of Protestant clergymen to Yugoslavia [TIME, Aug. 25], you designated me as "anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler." The implications to any intelligent reader are obvious, to wit: that I am an enemy of the Roman Catholic religion; that I am a babe-in-the-woods in intelligence and ability as an observer; that though...
...reporter for Hearst's International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
Despite the I-won't-wear-it manifestoes still echoing all over the U.S., Paris and most Manhattan fashion designers went confidently about their devilish work (see BUSINESS). Like it or not, the women would have pinched waists and puffed hips, predicted the couturiers. And why not? Look what the women put up with from the painters...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
...among the younger intelligentsia, as it was not, say, in 1920. Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident. . . . [Yet] we must remember that widespread and lively interest in the subject is precisely what we call a fashion. . . . Whatever . . . mere fashion has given us, mere fashion will presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real, permanent Christian revival: but it will work slowly and obscurely in small groups. The present sunshine ... is certainly temporary. The grain must be got into...