Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doubt and dissent have not been dispelled by the oversimplified and curiously defensive fashion in which President Johnson and his aides have at times presented their case. Thus, in releasing the names of 58 known Communist agents who had infiltrated the rebel movement, the State Department made it appear that only 58 Reds in all were involved. Undeniably, even a few dozen trained subversives are enough to manipulate the rebels' cause, as the Castroites did in Cuba. But many skeptics agree with Stanford Professor John J. Johnson that "You can find 58 Communists in New York City...
...Afro-Americans, in an especially crucial sense, have an opportunity to put the manifold variety of our political and cultural identifications into fertile and forward-looking combinations. We shall not hesitate to do so. And, as if it needs to be stated, membership in the Association in no fashion implies anyone's isolation from Harvard's broader resources...
Peculiar Position. It was U.S. Player B. Jay Becker who, on the third day of the tournament, first spotted "something highly improper." Playing against Reese and Schapiro, Becker noticed that his opponents were holding their cards in a peculiar fashion: both Britons kept varying the position of their fingers; sometimes only one finger showed at the back of the fan of cards, sometimes there were two, or three-bunched together or splayed. Later, Becker watched Reese and Schapiro play against other teams. At first, he could not believe his eyes; it was inconceivable that two such highly regarded professionals should...
...artistic attributes: perspective. "I've had to be a professional manager," says Simon, "and I haven't liked it particularly. It's been very rewarding and quite a lesson, and I'm damned glad to be rid of it. I like to work with things in a creative fashion, and that role is different from the professional manager...
...captivates, first, by way of practice, a male fly, and then the Clerk (Charles Degelman), the Vice President (Peter C. Johnson), the Directors (Peter E. Johnson, Joel Silverstein, and Henry Lanier), and finally the President (Arthur Friedman). Each gave way in splendidly individual fashion...