Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mahatma Gandhi set a fashion for pilgrims. After tramping barefoot across miles of east Bengal, pushing his nonviolence campaign, he tried the next lap in a jeep...
...Bettina Wilson, fashion editor of Vogue, held with progress. When she swirled into London's glacially snooty "400" club (evening dress required) wearing a breathlessly new, just-above-the-ankles Paris gown, she was politely given the gate and a little lecture. "One swallow does not make a spring," Proprietor George Rossi told her primly. "When we see more women wearing evening dresses above the ankles, we will revise our standards." Mrs. Wilson went quietly...
...authors: famed churchmen of three faiths -Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. All three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore, is not a private affair but a matter of public concern. Dr. Goldstein sums up: "The social responsibility that rests upon each one of us demands that our private life be equal in moral...
...what was the goal? When was it to be reached? And . . . what species of sub-man would have survived to enjoy them? That was how he had suddenly seen it. . .There was no goal because all was changed. . . The goal was an illusion. Therefore, it was necessary to fashion a political philosophy which would care for the living, for the present as for the future, for the future was in the present...
...United States looks toward is based on a rational approach to the enormous problems of economics and politics and science that face planners everywhere. In the nations of east Europe and China, the United States is interested in the stimulation, the encouragement of the groups of students who will fashion their peace out of the sure mechanism of reason and not from the unstable crucible of hunger-induced irrationality. This country is determined to inject stability into these areas of extreme restlessness, but the stability is not to be the rigidity of paralysis, but the dynamic of steady reconstruction...