Word: bra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...
...unusual editorial policy." The paper, he explains, permits no editorializing or even screening of opinion in its new coverage. It takes a stand in editorials, but leaves the news page open to any interest that wants to present its case--even groups the Banner has criticized, such as the BRA or the Boston White Citizens Council...
...People in Roxbury look around them. What do they see? They see urban renewal, crime and violence, the police and the unemployed, the new community centers, and the parades of acronyms (ABCD, BRA, OEO, etc.), and they are confused." No one explains these programs to them. Crucial meetings and decisions go by while the people they most effect know nothing about them. To the outside world this looks like apathy but, says Miller, "If I didn't believe the theory of Negro apathy was unequivocally wrong, I wouldn't be here. I have no doubt the Negro community will respond...
...children's childhood is being snatched from them by greedy adults [March 11]. We have endured the pre-teen-bra era and the pre-teen coketail party. Now we are faced with children aping the sad folksinger types. How tragic that the "nubes" wail of lost loves before the age of ten! If we lower the level of disturbance much more, prenatal psychiatrists will be needed...
...fine on nymphets, but for the woman in need of support it can be downright embarrassing. Girdle manufacturers, however, are rising to the crisis with all kinds of artful camouflage. Some are disguising the unseemly with ruffles; others propose nylon bloomers and all-in-one outfits with built-in bra and legs like Jamaica shorts. If all this seems too much, the well-dressed woman can simply take her stand against the rising hemline and resist. But she may soon find herself in a dwindling minority. Dress Designer Mainbocher speaks comfortingly of "client length," but he admits that his skirts...