Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operation Crossroads Africa, a project sending integrated student groups to Africa each summer to work with Africans on small scale development projects, is sponsoring an African Bazaar from 3-6 p.m. tomorrow at the Unitarian Church in the Square. African sculpture, fabric, music, jewelry, drawings, and photographs will be on sale...
...kaleidoscopic colors of an oriental bazaar swirled through London's normally drab Heathrow Airport. Clutching bundles bulging with everything from jars of curry powder to television sets, turbaned men, sari-clad women and coffee-tinted youngsters stepped off planes from such diverse points as Cairo, Dar-es-Salaam and Athens. Most of their journeys began in Kenya, where they had sold their businesses at panic prices, paid scalpers' ransom rates for airline tickets and grabbed planes to any place that offered hope of a connecting flight to Britain. Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede...
...much of a cliché to be true? Not quite. It is exactly what the first issue of Eye, a new Hearst magazine, has to offer. The latest in a line of Hearst magazines (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar), Eye is the first to peer exclusively at youth. It boasts a stripling management, sort of: Editor Susan Edmiston, who used to write a teen column, is 27; Executive Editor Howard Smith, who writes for the Village Voice, is 31. Its staff is also young and intrepid, sort of. A writer-photographer team jumped with the skydivers; another photographer...
...even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies which make the pound look like a sick piaster...
...Harper's Bazaar used to be able to say, 'This year you wear green,' or whatever," says its editor, Nancy White, "but not any longer." Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland agrees that what gives the new fashions their fresh look and vitality is youth: "This generation stepped out and away and did things their way." As a result, notes Vreeland, "no one is obliged to wear anything she doesn't want to, and one can go as far as she wants. She can wear absolutely anything that is wildly becoming...