Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the turn of the century, Vuillard's quiet, intimate style went out of fashion. About the same time he turned to commissioned portraits and large landscapes, which never reached the level of his interior scenes. In the early days, even the views from his Paris studio were inside pictures; the artist sits within the security of his room, looking out on the rooftops...
Since the race began, humans have been wondering about humans, but the latest fashion is to wonder about how the wondering should be done. Last week, at universities across the U.S., teams of anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists were developing new techniques of wondering. Whatever else may be said about it, the field called "human relations" has become one of the most rapidly expanding endeavors in the postwar academic world...
...Western, pro-American and anti-Soviet. Turkey's place as the Middle East's strongest anti-Communist bastion was not at issue. In other fields, the Republicans charged that the Democrats had failed to check inflation, had invited in foreign (U.S.) capital in too generous a fashion. The Democrats replied, in effect, by asking the people whether they were not better off than ever before...
Against the Fashion. It is just possible that E. Power Biggs ("Biggsie" to his friends) has never even heard of Liberace. Born in Westcliff, near London (he is now a U.S. citizen), Biggs studied engineering, gave it up to take a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. After teaching organ at the academy, he toured England, then came to the U.S. and became organist of the Boston Symphony...
Biggs disapproves of the still prevalent nineteen century fashion, which called for ever bigger and boomier organs, trying to compete with the symphony orchestra. He is dedicated to the "baroque" style, which to organists means the simpler, purer style of Bach's day. In his playing, Biggs rarely pulls all the stops. But despite his musical austerity, he can unbend. At an organists' convention he helped organize a few years ago, high points were a jam session of four organs playing...