Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelley Berman's closet, a dozen $325 suits hang in a row, the right sleeve of each bent at the elbow, recalling a cocked arm holding a telephone. Short of a medieval armorer, no tailor could keep a jacket from taking on the prime characteristic of its owner, the comedian who has risen to fame by talking to imaginary people on imaginary telephones...
This is a day of custom-made faiths. Men of religious spirit who, for reasons of rationality or temperament, cannot accept orthodox religions tailor these orthodoxies to suit their personal needs and imaginations. One of the more popular forms of spiritual eclecticism, and the one chosen by the late British man of letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan...
Press approval extended to the President-elect's personal life. After word got out that Kennedy bought suits tailor-made in London, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram clucked reprovingly over criticism of such practice. When Kennedy forswore golf except while on official vacations, the New York Post, which for years had been needling Republican Dwight Eisenhower for his golf, professed itself "dismayed." And the New York Times indignantly blamed the U.S. for this presidential sacrifice: "The nation might well worry its conscience over whether it has been having so much uncharitable fun with presidential golf that it has made...
News staffers have come to know better than to tailor their stories to Knowland's political cloth. In the first local election held after he returned from Washington, Oakland Democrats were dumfounded to find that their side got equivalent play with the Republicans. Said Knowland, well aware that the Trib's circulation area is 60% Democratic: "We've got to serve the whole community." In his one try at personal reporting, Knowland filed dispatches of scrupulous objectivity from both 1960 party conventions. Wrote Knowland after the Republicans nominated Nixon: "Both parties have strong and able campaigners...
...good deal of heavyweight drama follows, much of it involving a holy relic that the villains want to get their hands on. Joseph Gotten honors cinematic tradition as a U.S. war correspondent. He wears an eye patch and is dressed in what looks like an Italian tailor's interpretation of Winston Churchill's siren suit. Nunnally Johnson is deeply involved; he wrote the film and directed...