Word: adamic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Cautious, publicity-shy Adam Gimbel, president of Saks Fifth Avenue, was the No. 1 pre-war U. S. buyer of Paris high-style merchandise. But "Skap's" stand made him see red. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under...
...expression--or better, rationalization--of social change. To give it reality, it must be projected back on to the plane out of which it was cut: the economic world of the author. In the very choice of the "factors remaining equal" lies social philosophy. Quesnay and eighteenth-century France, Adam Smith and British industrial supremacy, Keynes and stagnation, are inseparably intertwined. Like political science, economic theory cannot be torn out of its historical context without losing substance...
...novels serially-not in the Westminster Review. Spurred on by enlightened self-interest, Chapman soon snooped so successfully that he discovered who George Eliot was. Wrote Lewes to Chapman: ". . . [Mrs. Lewes] authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of Adam Bede." Chapman's only reply seems to have been to ask if he might republish some of George Eliot's old articles in the Westminster Review. Lewes said No, wrote in his diary: "Squashed that idea...
...literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...
They began flaunting their bare skin because "Adam had no clothes before he sinned. We have not sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having...