Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consistent Progression. Chary of expanding the conflict, President Johnson has been markedly reluctant to use his bombers in this fashion, even during recent weeks when he has been faulted in voters' polls for not prosecuting the war with greater intensity. In fact, though last week's attacks on Hanoi-Haiphong were almost universally described as escalation, in the strictest sense they were no such thing. As a European observer in Saigon put it, they amounted to "a change in quantity but not in quality," whereas escalation in terms of modern warfare also implies technological and qualitative change...
...itself was damned in another fashion. Cedric Richards resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...
...strike. Last week he did, but it was a bit anticlimactic. Everyone knew he had Communists in mind, but it turned out that they were Communists everybody knew about: eight prominent labor spokesmen of Britain's Communist Party who, admitted Wilson, had behaved in an entirely legal fashion throughout the six-week dispute...
...should existence be a problem? These playwrights begin with one major premise-the absence of God. Their despair and their task are to fashion a post-Christian ethos, to find a meaning for life without supernatural sanctions. Man, as they see him, is a creature trapped between two voids, prenatal and posthumous, on a shrinking spit of sand he calls time...
Born. To Valerie Feit Harper, 31, Manhattan fashion consultant, and Marion Harper Jr., 50, president of Interpublic Inc., advertising and public relations behemoth: a daughter, their first child (his fifth); in Manhattan...