Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is rather frail as to be expected in light farce, but such is its success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...
Council for Excellence. "In some fashion," said Rickover, "we must devise a way to introduce uniform standards into American education. It would be best to set up a private agency, a Council of Scholars, financed by our colleges and universities as a joint undertaking-or perhaps by Foundations. This council would set a national standard for the high school diploma, as well as for the scholastic competence of teachers. High schools accepting this standard would receive official accreditation, somewhat on the order of the accreditation given medical schools and hospitals. Teachers would receive a special certificate if they complete...
...zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and village earned him the nickname of "Peasant" Bruegel. But history has proved that Bruegel was dealing with an eternal response of man that lies deeper than the shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists in history. With 15 of the 40 surviving paintings attributed to him collected in one room, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (see color pages) is today his finest monument...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
...Yves Saint-Laurent, 21, designer for Paris' fashion-pacing House of Dior, was named chief designer, thereby becoming successor to the late Christian Dior. Lean, shy and bespectacled, Algerian-born Saint-Laurent got his start at only 17 when Dior plucked him from a fashion-designer contest he was judging, made the boy his protege. Saint-Laurent took charge of Dior's lower-priced clothes for Dior's spring collection this year, is unofficially credited with designing nearly half of this fall...