Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard drinks were not served, but punch and champagne - California Almaden-flowed adequately. After the final Johnson years, when business suits were the accepted dress at congressional receptions, the legislators seemed eager to preen in black tie and whatever. Senator Strom Thurmond showed up in a rusty red dinner jacket that about matched his hair. Senator Jacob Javits sported what he jokingly referred to as his "basic black by Bill Blass...
...young, too, are exploiting the boom, although less cynically. A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs?not because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan...
...colleges" for dropouts that are being established across the country. California's Midpeninsula Free University, for instance, offers no fewer than five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up?though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...
...Hollywood stars have been his clients, and his rooms are crammed with photographs of the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Susan Hayward, Robert Cummings, Tyrone Power, Van Johnson, Ronald Colman, Peter Lawford and Ronald Reagan. To newsmen's repeated queries as to whether he is using astrology to run California, Governor Reagan replies that he is no more interested in the subject than the average...
Their presence is most conspicuous in the Defense Department, where Deputy Secretary David Packard, the millionaire co-founder of California's Hewlett-Packard Co., is only one of half a dozen business executives in the inner circle. Among the many others at high levels is Nathaniel Samuels, former managing partner of Wall Street's Kuhn, Loeb, a deputy Under Secretary of State. The new Under Secretary of Labor is James Hodgson, a former Lockheed Aircraft vice president for industrial relations...