Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played last week by Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff. The woman and the handsome stranger who taunt him were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute of Music) which chanted and wailed in Greek fashion. And important as either principals or chorus were lights. For Arnold Schönberg, being a painter as well as a composer, has a passion for color. He conceived his score with fading and blazing lights in mind. In the beginning the Man lies prostrate in the darkness with...
...developed on the part of students a delightfully informal custom of coming (either sober or intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...
...made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile in Central Asia. From there a year later Trotsky was deported into Turkey. Now he lives on Prinkipo, "a planet without a visa...
Then came a good one. The picture showed a threadlike path through the tube, splitting and continuing Y fashion in two paths. After examining the photographs Dr. Harkins concluded that he had broken down two atoms, built two new ones...
...limited fashion, Knox has already done her work well. She is one of the six colleges to which Harvard sends exchange professors, "the only college in Illinois having an active chapter of Phi Beta Kappa." In traditions and famed alumni she rivals her huge contemporary to the southeast, the University of Illinois. The college was founded with the town in 1837 by a band of non-sectarian New York State zealots with an eye to spreading culture through the western territory recently opened up as land grants to veterans of the Revolutionary...