Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heart of Darkness, Kafka's The Trial, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents-by comparison with these masterpieces, even the best among today's Madness Revolution artists seem dilettantes. But the new madness has taken the visions in hell of the masters and vulgarized them as chic. Perhaps the change was inevitable. Plato's charioteer had become the fat cat in the back of the limousine. Reason too often has dried up into "common sense" and become a cover word for intellectual timidity. The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages...
...nose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the chic nose of the moment in Europe is that of Princess Anne, according to Viennese Plastic Surgeon Hans Bruck. At a conference of plastic surgeons in Miami, the veteran of some 5,000 rhinoplasties (nose jobs) said that prospective patients used to come in clutching photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but now "they want the nose of the House of Windsor, like Princess Anne." Anne's aristocratically elongated proboscis will probably not penetrate the U.S., says
...Doubt. Callas at 48, chic in pantsuit or flowing, ankle-length skirt, does not merely walk out on the stage, she takes possession of it, just as she did during her last public performances in 1965 (Tosca at the Met and Covent Garden). With each student, she proceeds as she did last week with Korean Soprano Kyu Do Park. She let her sing all of Mi chiamano Mimi (They call me Mimi) from La Boheme, then went to work, singing phrases back to show how to put meaning into them. When Callas came to the word "Mimi," her rich, smoky...
Slinking into the OGCP yesterday morning to escape the SDS picketers due to arrive two hours later. I sidled up to one of the chic secretaries that populate the office and nervously whispered. "I'm here to see the, uh. Marine recruiter." She managed to keep a straight face and directed me to the Marine recruiting officer, safely hidden in the OGCP basement...
...embrace over half of mankind. A new magazine for women, "Ms.", has just made its debut. These days the fact that it is written, published and edited by women, and headed by no less of a cult heroine than Gloria Steinem, imbues the whole thing with a bit of chic. Men as well as women have been paying $1.50 for the privilege of glancing through the shiny red spring preview issue emblazoned with an eight-armed blue woman. And discussions of it have begun to float around the dining halls...