Word: beards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...
Liberty deteriorating into license has become a contemporary abuse in several arts. In Michael McClure's The Beard, which opened at a Greenwich Village theater last week, two characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...
...Beard's climactic scene, an oral sex act, is not as startling or fresh as McClure apparently thinks. It is a continuation of the second act curtain of Albee's Tiny Alice, in which Irene Worth, shielded from the audience by her robe, seemingly displayed her nude body to John Gielgud, who dropped to his knees before her while she uttered orgiastic cries. Both plays might have been more happily served by all-male casts...
...Dartmouth 14, Harvard 0--The Indians recorded another shutout, as Klungness and Mickey Beard got the touchdowns. To compound Harvard's frustration, fullback Tom Choquette fumbled as he dove into the Dartmouth end zone...
Will it go that far? It seems unlikely, but there are sociologists as well as barbers who believe that still more men will start growing still more hair and that the moustache and beard will proliferate. However, in the light of historical evidence that how men wear their hair is cyclical, it may turn out that the next generation will feel an urge to be clean-cheeked and crew-cut-or even bald...