Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Football is not only the most extraordinary sport I know, it is a piece of Americana as American as the Empire State Building or a cowboy film and provides a wealthy source for the student of folklore." These words, spoken once by the well-known English author, Graham Greene, are a striking comment on this peoples' "Sport" of the U.S.A...
...also make the clothes. When a dress runs away with the woman, it's a horror." Designer McCardell speaks with authority, for she started the casual American Look. Even among fashion editors, who genuflect to Paris before every deadline, she is considered unique. "Claire started the feeling for Americana," says Vogue's Babs Simpson. Agrees Diana Vreeland of Harper's Bazaar: "She gave the American woman a look of her own, and she did it without outside pressures...
...white-collar worker who's never ben further away than New York reads American literature he missed in business school next to an Indian student who has studied all over the world and now wants to enhance his knowledge of Americana...
Harvard is specially suited to offer a General Education course on Latin America. Described in the recent Faculty Report on Behavioral Sciences as "the finest collection of Latin Americana in all of the world's universities," Harvard's resources would lend themselves to the broad historical and cultural approach of a General Education course. The Anthropology Department and Peabody Museum have supported specialized research, and the history Department has even set up a professorship for the region filled by visiting lecturers from Latin American universities during the last two years...
SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, drawings by Fritz Kredel (Regnery; $12.50), is a spot of Americana for anyone interested in the nation's military past: 32 drawings in full color of the uniforms of the American army from Washington and the colonial rifleman to this year...