Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Communists took over China in 1949. Red leaders continued to wear their "liberation uniform"-dark trousers and jackets usually padded into shapelessness with cotton. Out of both prudence and necessity China's people followed suit, and women's clothes became almost indistinguishable from men's. Those who had chi pao (long gowns), like their slinky, slit-skirted sisters in Hong Kong and Singapore, put them out of sight...
Most Princetonians in the Late Twenties headed for Wall Street or the Harvard Law School. Accordingly, Red appeared at the Law School in 1932, where in spite of high marks, he found that the law did not quite suit him. From glimpses of his father's New York office he had concluded that the law was too mechanical and abstract, and that he wanted to work in something more personal. Soon he switched to the Episocopal Theological Seminary...
...ending the ordeal of legal limbo in which M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Struik has been suspended since 1951. Neatly ducking the issue of hiring an alleged Communist faculty member, the Institute removed Struik from his teaching duties five years ago on the grounds that he had a civil suit pending against him. But now, with dismissal of his indictment for conspiracy against the State imminent, M.I.T. must either restore him to his full position or discover new grounds for preventing his return...
...swimsuits the most important style of the year is the sleek, smooth suit. Elasticized faille is predicted a 70 per cent choice for swimwear this season, with vivid colors and stripes prominent. Cotton suits are noteworthy for their uncluttered look, and sleek lines are of course a natural in the knitted variety...
...other stories, a mood and a character which blend into suspense verging on horror, and is thus the only piece which can claim to draw its reader onward. Yet it achieves this only in the narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story...