Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's foreign population will get a chance to learn the story of its adopted country from Harvard men next week when Phillips Brooks House sends out a team of speakers, trained to present the background of America in graphic and interesting fashion...
...demobilization of millions, the final loss of U. S. markets in Europe, the Orient, Africa, Latin America ("The record of the last seven years is proof sufficient that the Roosevelt Administration is incapable of meeting this situation . . ."). He summed up: "And yet this Administration, in nonchalant and sprightly fashion, bluntly asks the American people to grant it at least an additional four years of power...
This leads in reasonably logical fashion to the conductor's next duty, the job of educating audiences to new music, which is a direct responsibility to the composer, and an ultimate one to the public. If he takes this obligation seriously, and at the same time has the genius of being able to recognize genius, he may become, as Koussevitzky has become, a very profound influence on the course of contemporary music. Koussevitzky has, for example, introduced to this country all the works of Strawinsky, Prokofieff, and Shostakowitch; it was at his suggestion, in fact, that Strawinsky's Symphonie...
When it comes to millinery, Mme. Schiaparelli expressed herself as in favor of simplicity and especially fond of fur chapeaux. "I have always disliked all these veils and things," she admitted with a smile, "sometimes I do indulge in complicated hats, but it's just to give fashion editors something to talk about...
From both psychological and stylistic angles, the book is a marked success. Clark's intense character analysis, done in narrative manner, represents a new accomplishment in the Western novel. The story unfolds in powerful fashion, marches slowly towards an inevitable moving climax, then ends on a strange dissonant note, faintly reminiscent of Stephen Crane...