Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-skirted, severely tailored designs "tacky." A plain navy suit was modeled, wrote one, "by a brunette mannequin who was with Chanel 20 years ago. In the respectful silence you could almost hear the jaws dropping." The writer for Le Figaro observed: "It was touching; one might have thought oneself back in 1925." But in the midst of all the scratching and meowing, one U.S. fashion expert detected a careful hedge: "The buyers are buying...
...thongs round their necks, 2) whipping the soles of their feet, 3) burning their eardrums with lighted cigarettes. Hay ward was fined ?100 ($280) and jailed for three months, but the English judge did not think that the soldiers should be judged too severely. "It is easy to work oneself up into a state of pious horror over these offenses," said he, "but they must be considered against their background. All the accused were engaged in seeking out inhuman monsters and savages of the lowest order...
...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...
...Accoptance into the Ivy League would be no more than we deserve," William Miller, a member of the Rutgers Board of Trustees, claimed. Membership in the League has meaning beyond the football field. It means a responsibility to conduct oneself in a thoroughly dignified manner, both on and off the field...
...past," says Director Bismarck. "None of [them] wants to return to that past . . . They came from various ideological camps -Nazis, Communists, Social Democrats, Conservatives-and it is important that the essence of life for them proves to be readiness to serve, to do something that liberates one from oneself...