Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well. To a large degree they are differences of style and experience, but precisely for that reason they are revealing of Mumford himself. Mumford is highly critical of the young for their arrogance in ignoring history. The impatience of the young, he feels, is just another manifestation of push-button mentality, which expects rewards in seconds. "Change," says Mumford, "takes experiment. It can't come overnight. This is the one thing I'm against." History teaches this lesson, and also gives clues to how change can come about...
...have eyes like dirty ice and mouths as inviting as tombs. The young men have subdued ties, three-button suits and Ivy-covered vocabularies. Together they make up the modern Mafia that inspired "Lucky" Luciano, Murder Inc. and The Brotherhood...
Church or concert, Christmas or midsummer, there is one striking thing about the new audience for Bach. It is young. At the weekly Bach cantata performances at Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the congregation sports more beards than button-downs, appears to be almost entirely under 35. "Students will brave rainstorms to wait in line for standing room at a Bach recital," marvels German Organist Helmut Walcha. Record stores report a marked increase in the number of teen-agers thronging around the classical counters, buying up Bach without so much as a glance at the new Beatles album...
...that I'd just taken a bite, but I hadn't noticed it at the time," Another: "Time seemed very drawn out. I'd keep forgetting what I was doing, especially on the first test, but somehow, every time the critical letter came up, I found myself pushing the button...
Buyers are also ordering many more accessories, including air conditioners, push-button windows and supersize engines. In 1966 only 12% of the buyers wanted vinyl roofs; now 33% do-at an extra cost of $80 to $100. Power steering is ordered with 80% of the cars, up from 66% two years ago, and 90% have automatic transmissions...