Word: tweeds
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Sports and historical writing usually attract very different audiences. The topics are on opposite sides of Barnes and Noble’s: 13-year-old boys with Yankees caps and cracking voices pour over A-Rod stats in one aisle and 50-year-old bespectacled men in tweed make pithy comments in another...
Mention of the tenure process often evokes images of wiry, grey-haired men in tweed discussing someone’s personal life, brandy in hand. And while these stereotypes might have some truth to them, there is a protocol...
...case, an ad hoc committee is formed, comprised of three outside scholars, two senior Harvard faculty members from outside the candidate’s department and the man himself—the President of the University—who chairs all of these closed-door sessions. These are your tweed-clad, brandy-sipping decision-makers...
...could match Chanel. In addition to hosting Mme. Kidman, Lagerfeld overloaded the runway with 99 models, including vintage strutters Naomi, Linda, Shalom and Amber. Each sported some rendition of the house's iconic tweed jacket, now cut in soft pastel colors, or a whiff of an evening dress in beaded chiffon. Nobody knows better than Lagerfeld that fashion is not about art but about selling clothes. Indeed, it may cost the house of Chanel millions of dollars to pull off the whole Kidman campaign. But why pinch pennies? At a trunk show at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City last...
...There was some tension,” he said of one particular rub up between Harvard tweed and newly christened Crimson Crazies. “But it was a good tension...