Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whether by divine power or electrical cosmos, man operates in a highly limited field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance...
Portents & Protocol. The West listened with an uneasiness that was not yet dismay. The Russians, though they said it in friendly fashion, were clearly indicating that they have no intention of discussing Germany until Adenauer goes to Moscow -or, perhaps, until Adenauer is dead...
...begin dismantling the cold war by locking German reunification so tightly to European security. He sped off to Bulganin's villa for dinner, finally talked Bulganin into accepting a statement admitting "the close link" between reunification of Germany and the problem of European security. And in this fashion the final communique was agreed upon...
...current fashion for pitting psychiatry and religion against each other as though they were mutually exclusive took a beating on last week's Catholic Hour from a brilliant Roman Catholic convert who is also a distinguished psychiatrist: Karl Stern, author (The Pillar of Fire) and chief of psychiatry at Ottawa General Hospital. The conflict is not necessary or even real, said Dr. Stern, and the appearance of conflict is fostered by fallacies on both sides...
Curl of Smoke. Moroccans did, after their fashion. On Bastille Day, Moroccan flags flew alongside the French Tricolor, the streets were thronged with French and Moroccan strollers, and the cafe terraces were packed...