Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cotton is just a small part, springs into New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years...
...there is not a piece of textile here that is not produced today." The costumes come from 16 former royal families, and a few had to be returned for use during the preparation of the exhibit. One of Singh's assistants was married in a bridal outfit with a veil embroidered in gold that looks, to a Western eye, like nothing so much as formal wear for a fairy-tale princess...
...FAILING TO PUBLICIZE these horrors our news media play right into the hands of the Soviet government. The men in the Kremlin have every interest in keeping their gross violations of international law hidden behind a veil of public complacency. It should be kept in mind that the international news media failed to publicize reports of Nazi genocide despite overwhelming evidence as early as 1942. Only after the defeat of the Third Reich did the world's collective conscience gather over the dead and ask, "Why wasn't this prevented...
...find the responses of the freshmen of the Undergraduate Council poll most instructive. To determine the fair terms of cooperation in a society of citizens regarded as free and equal, philosopher John Rawls uses the idea of an "original position." People in the "original position" are hidden behind a "veil of ignorance": though familiar with how society operates, they do not know their particular situation within it. In the society of Harvard undergraduate housing, the freshman class best approximates this state. If they were to assemble together to formulate a system of assigning Houses, any unanimous agreement resulting from their...
...recommending love in South Africa, a considerable irony, since exactly 36 blacks are counted among B.Y.U.'s 26,000 students, and seven are members of the football team. They are outnumbered by Polynesians. "Our recruiting is not predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably the most married college...