Word: garbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...West Side High School in Gary, Ind., a kaleidoscope swirled and shifted: elegant pantsuits vied with flowing African dresses. Brightly colored, long-collared shirts from Harlem's streets brushed past stetsons and string ties from Texas. The careful tailoring of pin-stripe suits contrasted with the bulky military garb of the separatist army of the Republic of New Africa. The politics of the assembled blacks-3,009 delegates to the first national political convention of blacks in the U.S.-were as wildly varied as their attire...
...mother general, Sister Luke Tobin (the only American nun to attend Vatican II), the Loretto community became the prototype for renewal in American sisterhoods. The Loretto nuns were among the first in the U.S. to modernize their convent schedule and dress-the habit is often exchanged for the civilian garb appropriate to their work-and branch out into professions other than the teaching, nursing or running of orphanages and old-age homes usually associated with sisters. In 1965, a Loretto nun became a full-time executive in the Job Corps. Today some members counsel conscientious objectors and drug addicts...
Pope Paul VI shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns...
...spends little time either on Army bases, or at the "Spanish" villa he bought last year on the grounds of the South Carolina private resort that lists him as its touring pro. Free clothes are no problem. Apart from Army issue, he gets a good supply of civilian garb from manufacturers whose clothing he endorses...
...doll is holding her own despite competition from her more glittering sisters who eat, tell time and talk on the telephone. G.I. Joe, a boys' doll that used to be outfitted in military togs, has been redecorated in deference to antiwar sentiment. He now often appears in the garb of an astronaut or aquanaut...