Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other offering, an Italian film, Three Forbidden Tales, tells the usual Poignant stories of rape, unrequited and misdirected love, shattered pride, sex, and death in fairly nauseating fashion...
Back-alley exposés of TV comics have come into fashion on big and little screens this season. Notable examples: Hollywood's The Great Man and Studio One's Tale of a Comet. Last week on TV, Producer Martin Manulis of CBS's Playhouse go turned Ernest Lehman's novelette The Comedian into an X ray of the flabby soul of a top-ranking clown. TV Comic Sammy Hogarth, played by Mickey Rooney as if the part were fitted to him in Savile Row, is the man who gives the chuckle...
Mildly Improper? Then there was that horrid word, underprivileged. "The Americans use it because of their fashion for using long words they don't understand and rejecting short words like poor, which they consider mildly improper." It was. in short, just one more example of American "pretentious illiteracy." Added Lord Conesford: "How would it have been if Sir Winston Churchill, instead of saying, 'Give us the tools and we will finish the job,' had said, 'Donate us the implements and we shall finalize the assignment...
...most popular device of all, the "brainstorm." Originator of the brainstorm* is Alex F. Osborn of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, who defines it as a method in which groups of people "use their brains to storm a creative problem and do so in Commando fashion, with each stormer audaciously attacking the same objective...
Farnsworth revealed that Steyskal, who immigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1946, has been writing to Pusey for about a year and a half in an attempt to get an appointment to teach here. His previous letters have been answered "in as gentle a fashion as possible," Farnsworth said...