Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which had become a matter of prudery more than of purity, propriety more than of grace. The 19th century frantically insisted on propriety precisely because it felt its real faith and ethics disappearing. While it feared nudity like a plague, Victorian Puritanism had the effect of an all-covering gown that only inflames the imagination. By insisting on suppressing the sex instinct in everything, the age betrayed the fact that it really saw that instinct in everything. So, too, with Sigmund Freud, Victorianism's most perfect rebel...
Leaping to Nkrumah's defense, the Ghanaian Times recalled Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, adding: "We cannot have a wig-and-gown cantata while Rome is burning. The nation cannot be bamboozled by the diabolic insinuations and aspersions of a confused and antagonistic judiciary." Nkrumah completed the outrage when, in violation of Ghana's constitution, he sacked Sir Arku Korsah, 69, a widely respected jurist who in 1956 became Ghana's first black Chief Justice. Noting that even South Africa's high-handed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has never interfered...
...sell to diaper-service companies and baby photographers. The child joins a list in his own right the first time he sends in a cereal box top, makes it again at high-school graduation when his name is gleaned from a yearbook or supplied by a cap-and-gown manufacturer. From then on, every time he registers his car, makes the telephone directory, buys a home, rents an apartment, joins a book club, contributes to a charity, shops by mail or takes out a credit card, his name is apt to be noted by some listmaker. No matter how much...
...Embassy reception, Brezhnev gaily shouted "Down with protocol and long live freedom." The performance did little for protocol but even less for freedom. For a royal banquet at Golestan Palace, Brezhnev specified in advance that proper dress would be a business suit (the Empress appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding through the streets of Teheran in a gilded coach, Brezhnev defied custom when he turned his back on the Shah in his eagerness to wave back...
...height of the party, invited guests could not even get out of the elevator. Finally, firemen ordered the doors closed to newcomers until the crowd cleared. It was really too late. "You can't see the pictures," moaned a lovely thing in a floor-scraping green gown. "You can't even see the people. You can just feel them...