Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incitement to Suicide? Among other things, they objected to the movie barber: 1) stropping his razor on his necktie in preparation for suicide ("a provocation to commit suicide with professional instruments," said the barbers); 2) absentmindedly tying a restaurant napkin around Li's neck, barber-chair fashion; and above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing...
...will make Nazis out of people who never were Nazis before," snarled Henrietta von Schirach, when the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins visited the camp last week. "Please tell your General Clay I hope he will not treat me in such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently...
...special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during last spring's smallpox scare...
...seemed to some of them oldfashioned: he loved virtue, in an unembarrassed and trusting fashion. Some smart undergraduates might misunderstand his generosity and think him gullible, but most of his pupils learned to admire and respect him for his unique combination of learning and innocence...
Recognizing that all Germans are not "bad" and that their conduct was partially not of their own volition, the powers that finally dispose of Germany's future should temper their firmness with merey. But they should not be either weak or apologetic. Germany should be reconstructed in a fashion best suited to promote peace. Maudlin sympathy, such as Mr. White drools, should not be permitted to sheme Americans into letting Germany write its own ticket...