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Word: fashioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Podola's were a case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Mind on Trial | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Welcome in Beauty | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected by the purge, tolerate having men about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Fall Housecleaning | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute for Men's Fashion complained that he had prescribed "dark suit" rather than "white tie" for the inaugural reception that followed the telecast. "I have advised Dr. Liibke not to knuckle down to the dictatorship of associations, no matter who they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Presidents Without Precedent | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...huge increase in dieting to keep in trim. More women can afford to show more of their figures. Says Neiman-Marcus Buyer Sally Tutt: "The Bikini will be a big thing this year for sun and fun. The well-traveled waistline has been going up and down since fashion de-emphasized the bosom, and the spotlight is now on the navel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Fun, Sun & Drawstrings | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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