Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Re-Armament, traditionally no friend of military enterprises such as the U.S. Air Force, will pay for its long ride after a fashion. The Air Force normally charges two rates for transport flights -one for governmental agencies, another for nongovernmental agencies. Moral Re-Armament will pay only the Government rate. Its check will amount to about $97,000, and U.S. taxpayers will pay the rest...
...moment at least, existentialism has spent its lien on philosophical fashion. Sartre, after writing one of the most effective anti-Communist plays (Dirty Hands), lapsed into the security, not of the church, but of the Communist Party line. His most gifted colleague, gentle, ailing Novelist Camus (The Plague), parted from him. "For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers," he wrote, and disowned Communism...
...make a start on rearmament would hinder the possibility of a settlement at Geneva, said Ollenhauer. Der Alte was visibly angry when he followed Ollenhauer to the speaker's stand. "I had hoped," said he, "to discuss this problem with the Social Democratic faction in a democratic fashion. I have been disappointed...
...care to undergo. The son of a leading Swiss painter, he started to draw as a boy, at 21 went to live in Paris. He quickly became one of surrealism's leading sculptors. His constructions rank among the wittiest that movement produced. But at the height of his fashion, in 1935, Giacometti made a decision that carried him for the next twelve years through an artistic no man's land: he had come to mistrust his sense of motion and space...
...caps. The capmaker said that the answer was not for ladies to hear. Bender insisted. Lev bent over the Senator and whispered loudly: "Made out of the same stuff they make falsies of." Standing jowl to jowl with Senator Bender, Lev put on an impromptu fashion show, whipping sample hats on and off his head. Bender was curious about Lev's "social" relationship with Mrs. Mella Hort, ex-contract administrator in the Defense Department who had testified that she had visited Lev's hotel room...