Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have three main grievances concerning this affair," Coolidge said. "A matter of political affiliations should not be a factor in this case; I have not had an opportunity to clear my record; and I feel that the whole matter has been handled in a most ungentlemanly and unfortunate fashion...
...Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even Professorial families may expand to keep pace with the fashion; professors may soon be able to get special grants to educate their children--provided they have children. We agreed with Malthus in approving this kind of growth...
Crooks & the Cardinal. Dinneen started on the Globe in 1922, not with crooks but with a cardinal. The paper hired him as a shorthand specialist and put him to covering the late William Cardinal O'Connell. Dinneen and the cardinal got along well enough, after their fashion. Once, on a ship during a pilgrimage to Rome, Cardinal O'Connell noticed a young lady applying lipstick, upbraided her severely. That evening, while the cardinal relaxed over a glass of port and a cigar, Dinneen asked him why he had been so rough on the girl. "The Holy Virgin Mary...
...generation ago, such exposure would have been tantamount to public nudity. The wearing of the veil-derived not from Koranic law but, like most feminine fashion, from an instinct for artful concealment-has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of woman's enslavement. Inside the palace, however, sits Morocco's foremost champion of unveiling: the Sultan's own daughter, Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha...
...radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise but a virtue...