Word: oriente
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Fashion trends for this summer will be as exotic as the Orient, as sleek as sheaths, as versatile as two-season designing will permit, and as fashionable as ever. Both women's and men's clothing will essentially follow convention, yet there will be twists of the bizarre...
John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, specifically attacked suggestions 1) to establish a cross-departmental Division of the Visual Arts; 2) to change the name and limit the scope of the Department of Fine Arts, while removing studio work to a new "Design Center"; and 3) to orient the teaching of art toward undergraduate distribution, possibly at the expense of concentration...
...bereted paratroopers, sailors and the képis blancs of the French Foreign Legion, all was quiet. By the hundreds and thousands the French, with no place in the new independent state of Viet Nam, were leaving the city they had once made famous as "the Paris of the Orient...
...world of the Pacific Northwest's mystic Morris Graves is seen in low-keyed colors: dark browns, misty greys, the glint of surf. Done with techniques heavily influenced by the Orient, his work reveals a world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms...
...have always lived without political passion," wrote Renault one day in 1936. "Whatever its government or opinion, I have always served my country with the same vigor ... to orient the country toward work." He visited Hitler in 1938, returned with a case of Führerism. When the Wehrmacht swept across France, Renault was in the U.S. as a member of an Allied purchasing mission. He returned home to put his factories at the service of Vichy and the Nazis, in four years made 34,232 vehicles for the Nazis. When a friend chided him for making money...