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Wide or skinny, plaid or plain, synthetic or silk, the tie is a Father's Day staple--nearly 4.5 million dads are getting one on June 15--and one of the few fashion accessories to have survived nearly 400 years of social change. Neck adornments have been worn since ancient times to signify title or wealth or even just to sop up sweat. But modern, mostly decorative neckwear dates from King Louis XIV of France, who first popularized the tie's predecessor, the cravat, after spotting the bow-tie-like embellishment on 17th century Croatian soldiers...
...world. The spread of proselytizing faiths brought dispersed communities into contact." Coffee, for example, traveled with Islam (which forbade the consumption of wine), spreading from Yemen throughout the Arab world, then into Turkey and Europe. The constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished the Silk Road as an avenue of commerce. Sometimes religious divines explicitly advanced the process of globalization long before anyone knew of the word. I collect maps of the provinces of China drawn by Martino Martini, a 17th century Italian Jesuit missionary whose exquisite cartography revealed China to the world-and, indeed...
...Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology,” also counting for Culture and Belief, will be adapted from Folklore and Mythology 100. Humanities 27, taught by English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, will become English 127: “A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the early 17th Century” and count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement this fall. The acting chair of the comparative literature department also saw two of her courses welcomed into the new curriculum. Susan R. Suleiman?...
...International conspiracies. Nazis in the first and third Indys, Indian Thugees in the second. But it wouldn't be the '50s without Commies, in the chic person of Irina Spalko (played by Blanchett with the severe demeanor of Cyd Charisse's Ninotchka in the 1957 MGM musical Silk Stockings and the black bob Charisse sports in The Band Wagon). Rather than the simple matter of conquering the West militarily, Irina is part of a Soviet plot to cloud our minds by getting access to some secret technology that is concealed either in an Area 51 warehouse or in the remotest...
...that I rocked Timbs...even in the summertime.This past summer, on my first day of work as an intern at Men’s Vogue, my best outfit consisted of a pair of Dolce & Gabbana navy-blue trousers, a thin wispy dress shirt by Ralph Lauren (worn with a silk knit tie), and a pair of Valentino grayish-tan lace-ups that I got for free when my PR exec boss of the previous summer told me “buy something for yourself” at the Barney’s warehouse sale. Today, when I think about...