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...marks can be left behind when a seam is let out or a waist expanded. Since there is no such problem when a garment is shortened or taken in, it is better for customers to buy a garment that is a bit too big rather than a bit too snug. Moreover, because of the limitations imposed by the knit process, the subtle pinstripes and deep-tone colors of tweeds are still impossible to duplicate in double knit fabric...
Gentlemanly Resignation. This spectacular interventionism, unparalleled in peacetime America, could be carried off only by a man of singular self-assurance. This Acheson had-to a fault. His career was a textbook example of the rise of a 'patrician in the snug embrace of the American Establishment. His father was a clergyman who migrated to the U.S. from Britain and became Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. His mother was an heiress, daughter of a family of Canadian whisky distillers. Young Dean attended Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School. He married Alice Stanley, his sister's roommate at Wellesley...
...Arthur eventually returns to the side of the road. His subsequent adventures-including the loss of his other leg-leave him in much the same state as contemporary art. He is a minimal man trying to make more out of less. At the end of the book, Arthur is snug in an abandoned church with a girl who seems to symbolize science as a dead-end faith. The couple eats whatever falls off passing produce trucks, and Arthur amuses himself by composing epigrams from an incomplete alphabet of movable letters on the church bulletin board. Greenberg's philosophical cartooning...
...guests began filing in at 5:30 p.m. at the approximate pace of a World Series crowd. While they drank to tinkling background music of polkas and show tunes, the mayor and his wife joined a select group of 150 VIPs in a snug cocktail setting behind the speaker's platform. The union leaders pawed their way toward the mayor, beaming for bulb-popping cameras as they pumped his hand...
That vision will probably never replace the image?and the dream? of the snug, permanent hearth, even suitably expanded by "clusters." But it may be closer to the reality of American life...