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When it came to corsets, men feared the worst, hearing tell of a new outline called the "long torso." This sounded like a threat to return to the hideous, bag-shaped style of the '20s, when theflour-sack dress flourished and the straight line conquered all. But it seemed last week that the "long torso," alias the "extended waistline," was just another false alarm. Even the stylists could not make sense of it. Wrote Carmel Snow, in Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful...
...years passed, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps bid fair to be the most fought-over composition of the 20th Century. One English critic described it as "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions," declared that it should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, a dentist celebrated for murdering his wife, cutting her body in pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans...
Then he spoke to the neutrals. To the weak ones, fearing Germany and Russia, he said that Britain's war desire is "that the small nations of Europe shall henceforth live in security, free from the constant threat of aggression." To the strong ones, anxious to stay out of this war and eliminate future ones, he looked toward a new, disarmed, mutually trusting body of nations. And here he spoke to the U. S. This new order could not be molded by England and France alone. To achieve the dream, "other nations must come in and help...
...Damoclean dagger rather than sword are the $1,420,000,000 worth of U. S. stocks and bonds held by Allied investors. Their value is less than 2% of that of all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But under the imminent and certain threat of World War II, the hair that held this dagger over U. S. securities markets looked scarily tenuous to market men. If French and British investors had sold their holdings in a panicky rush for dollars, the dagger would have dropped on an already queasy market, drawn real blood...
...Germany's structure," they say, "is regional. The Germans do not care to, and do not actually, accept dictation from Berlin. There are, moreover, simply too many Germans in Europe for one state. An empire comprising all Germans would always constitute an implied threat and a source of unrest for the Continent...