Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...except that of his existential fulfillment. Even the non-believers do not wish to reject all possibility of God, for this too imposes restrictions upon their habits of thought. With the possibility that a God may exist always within reach of his clutching hand, the agnostic may proceed to fashion his own religious philosophy and take or reject the convenient fruit when he ultimately sees...
...experiments designed to intensify the intellectual experience of the freshman year." Apparently little effort was made to define further the nature of these "experiments." Doubtless one reason for this was that most professors had not yet had time to think the matter out in any very careful or systematic fashion. However, some of the people most involved will say privately that this was not the whole reason. According to them, the new Faculty-members who had begun laying definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would...
Maurice LeNoblet Duplessis, the Premier of Quebec, scorned the taking of bids on public works as "disguised hypocrisy," and bestowed stretches of highway to qualified areas (i.e., they voted right) in the fashion of a feudal lord. He set elections for Wednesdays, day of devotion to St. Joseph, his patron saint, and went faithfully to 6 a.m. Mass at the Quebec City Roman Catholic basilica, while his bodyguard, a Protestant, waited impassively in the rear of the church. Neither the man nor his government could have happened anywhere but in Quebec...
Today Sir Donald would have to take another reading. Baroque is a growing fashion, so popular that chamber music groups, armed with a baroque repertory, have popped up in towns from coast to coast, and record companies are cashing in on the boom. With hi-fi to bring out the delicate riches, the companies have issued no fewer than 173 baroque chamber works this year alone. Bach and Handel get their full share and there is also a growing list of lesser Italian composers and "forgotten geniuses" for the ordinary music lover to hear and enjoy...
...hero scissored by children from the backs of cereal boxes. His incessant wrestling with the devil is a little sophomoric, and his escape from Parmelee Cove shows the limits of even the best genre writing: Auchincloss can think of nothing better for him to do than marry a penniless fashion magazine editor and barricade himself in a Manhattan town house...