Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming bit of schmalz-and a devilish parody...
...also an examination of weather through the ages-of how people dressed to meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...
Artificial Brain. Out of such primitive beginnings has grown what Dr. Wiener considers the most startling (and ominous) development in human evolution. Engines and production machines replace human muscles; control mechanisms replace human brains. Even a thermostat thinks, after a fashion. It acts like a man who decides that the room is too cold and puts more coal in the stove...
...fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn't take the car along with them. Then they got a grand piano in the same fashion. Now they're dazedly talking about the ill wind of evacuation...
...cause for alarm Friday night at Symphony Hall disappeared as soon as a top balcony listener stood up, cupped his hands, and shouted for "Wintergreen." The Band had started off in a rather unpromising fashion, with a Suite by Holst and a piece by Vaughn Williams that seemed to suit the concert hall more than it did the players. But the call for "Wintergreen" showed that the audience still had faith in the Red Coats, and thought better of Stadium music than of symphony-type arrangements...