Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof that not all Harvardmen fetch up on the New Frontier. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall ('14) assembled at a Capitol lunch eleven fellow alumni who are all Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B...
...discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet orthodoxy, are worn only by servicemen, hayseeds, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants to put on a private screening, Spiegel presses a button, and two paintings-a Rouault and a Picasso-slide aside to reveal the projectionist's peepholes...
Tues., April 17 Rainbow of Stars (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Goulet hosts a variety show from Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, with Nancy Walker, Dick Button, Carol Lawrence, Al Hirt, Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A reappraisal of imperialism on the Indian subcontinent, filmed in Lahore, written and narrated by Novelist John Masters...
...master. And it retains not the vaguest memory of the dissatisfied, underfed, rebellious child it used to be. Its observations are easy to come by. It has gone from "I'm not kidding about everything being wrong" to "I'm only kidding about everything being wrong." It has become button down. It has grown...