Word: neckedness
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No other leader of a Western democracy could point to so overwhelming a mandate. It freed De Gaulle of the need to depend on any unwieldy combination of quarreling political parties in forging his Fifth Republic. Much more important, to a man so stiff-necked about legality, he need no...
Sixty young men of the Jenkins Township-Yatesville Borough Joint High School have struck a blow for freedom. They "remained away from classes," said the New York Times, "rather than wear neckties." We, who have maintained our right as responsible adults to attend classes open-necked, can say to our...
Heedless of acres of bikini-clad flesh, Riviera tourists paid boatmen $10 a head to ride from Monte Carlo to nearby Cap-d'Ail. The lure: a possible chance of spying vacationing Sir Winston Churchill propped up on the shore in shorts, wide-brimmed straw hat, open-necked shirt...
Even as a schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year...
Women's colleges, luncheon clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet...