Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still reeked from the scandals of power abused, and the base of its power was gone. New York, like many another American city, had once been a teeming jungle of half-broken Old World cultures, uprooted, insecure, warring, misunderstanding each other and the new world around them. After its fashion, Tammany mediated conflicts, spoke for the immigrant masses. The Statue of Liberty said, "Give me your tired, your poor," but it was Tammany that really opened palpable arms of help and advice. This was not a job that respectable New Yorkers were willing and able to do. Tammany...
Scarcely a year ago, such Soviet threats might have been enough to throw many Europeans into a tizzy of alarm. Last week's Communist blustering seemed to misread the mood of Western Europe, and to be almost irrelevant. The fact seemed to be that in a slow, subsurface fashion, the people of Western Europe had finally made up their minds that German rearmament is inevitable. There was plenty of agitation in last week's parliamentary debating in Bonn and Paris, but local passions, not the Kremlin threats, were what caused...
...rejuvenated weskit is making a desperate attempt to become part of the attire of today's stylish young man, and well it may. At any rate, there appears to be no Dior in sight who will, in the near future, set feat in the hearts of fashion wise Harvard males by upsetting the register of today's styles...
...could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature to be a teetotaler, to dress in all the sincerity of rough Jaeger woolens, to stand on a soapbox and preach rebellion in pouring rain. Wilde made it his duty to be "a flaneur, a dandy, a man of fashion," and to preach revolution only in the best London drawing rooms. Shaw said bluntly: "All great truths begin as blasphemies," while Wilde remarked, with his lips ever so lightly curled: "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found...
...Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16), rose before some 300 women to make a speech titled "Dress Is Civilization." Cried Dr. Lin, who thinks like a Confucius but dresses like a Coolidge: "Men should dress neatly, sensibly and efficiently, but let us do away with this age-old Nordic fashion-the tie. Give us a few inches around our necks. You ladies can take off your jackets when it is too hot, and appear in your blouses. Why not men?" A curious woman in his audience then asked Dr. Lin why, contrary to his sartorial convictions, he was wearing a coat...