Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction achieves a higher level. Paul Goodman's play Abraham and Isaac, while it does not deepen or alter our basic understanding of the biblical situation in the fashion of Kierkergaard's Fear and Trembling, does retell the story with poetic insight into the man of faith's process of willing. Also colorful bits of Hebraic philosophy enrich our understanding of the chracters and their outlook on life...
...Moore described as a boy who wears clothes rank with sweat and caked with grease from his tractor? He walks with long steps, and his shoes are half eaten off by manure acids. After dinner he stretches out on the parlor floor and remarks in a corny fashion: "let my eats settle." Is this the true picture of F.F.A.'s Star Farmer? Or is it a rut writers often fall into when describing farm people? You can't have a farm radio program without having hillbilly music; maybe the same has to be in farm articles...
...have merely been demoted. "Science students," says Goucher's Director of Religious Activities, Walter Morris, "have come to realize that science is accurate and true in those areas to which it has purposely limited itself." Freud is still studied respectfully, but he no longer monopolizes the conversation. The fashion now, says Nicholas Cardell, director of the University of Chicago's Unitarian Channing Club, "is to talk of Niebuhr or Tillich...
Among those puffing their way up the descending escalator of intellectual fashion, many have cause to remember the shrewdly placed elbow and deft umbrella of a comparative shopper in ideas called Mary McCarthy...
...people's democracy" across the East China Sea had sent some 3,500 products to the fair, including bicycles, pheasant feathers, automatic coal conveyors, tiger skins, machine tools, jade trinkets, generators, fountain pens and even a batch of Shanghai-style dresses with enticing slit skirts, a fashion the Reds banned as "decadent" in their regime's first days...