Word: cardiganed
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...aisle door opened quietly. A large man padded gracefully in and paused behind the standees at the rear of the orchestra floor. He peered intently at the stage and listened. His blue shirt was open at the neck, and over it he wore a bright red cardigan. He could have been a stagehand out for a stroll. Instead, James Levine, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his rounds. It was the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter...
Floppy hats, furs and knee-high boots (for both dresses and knickers) were frequent accessories. To drape over the dresses, designers introduced large, loose, shapeless coats and capes ranging from cardigan-small to something approaching a wraparound bedspread...
...English aristocracy was capable of disastrous follies. There is no more perfect indictment of such leadership than the fatuously self-confident direction by the Lords Raglan and Cardigan of the charge of the Light Brigade. The event must be seen in retrospect not just as a piece of heroic military stupidity (worse ones have occurred since), but as a symbol of what happens to a trained elite that is closed to new blood and new ideas...
October 13: The fourth quarter of the Harvard-Columbia football game. Coach Restic poured in the reserves with the Crimson ahead, 57-0, resulting in a 0-0 deadlock in the final quarter. Almost as exciting as Ward Cleaver's cardigan sweater...
...watch the goings-on. Stewardesses and secretaries sit in forced conversation with one another, nursing their "sloe screws" (sloe gin and orange juice) and "thigh openers" (vodka gimlets) and feigning unawareness of the males all about. Behind them, hulking young men in double-knit suits or bright cardigan sweaters lounge against the wall, cradling bottles of beer and looking over the pickings. "I've never seen anything like this," say Cindy Barton, 22 from Estherville, Iowa. "There is nothing in Sioux City to measure...