Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...
Exposure having just about reached its limits, designers these days are hard put to find new ways to shock and titillate. Not Chicago's Walter Holmes, who has seized on the classic notion that nothing is more arousing than violation of what is most sacred. Thus he has turned out a pair of dresses that are outraging some people (especially the devout) while delighting others. The designs, now being sold through the Paraphernalia boutique chain: a miniskirted version of a nun's habit and an equally abbreviated copy of a belted monk's robe, both with hoods...
...French railway station a woman bids goodbye to a friend. Then she boards the train-and sneaks out on the other side of the platform. A classic Hitchcock opening for a film that is missing only one vital ingredient: Alfred Hitchcock. In the maestro's place, however, is his greatest disciple, Director Francois Truffaut, who considers Hitchcock "an artist of anxiety" to be placed alongside Kafka...
...Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni. "That is the one director whose sensibilities I cannot get inside," he says, possibly because the aridity of Antonioni's films is diametrically opposite to Truffaut's abiding humanism. Perhaps his favorite cinematic hero became the subject last year of a classic appreciation: Hitchcock, published by Simon & Schuster. A series of interviews by Truffaut, the dialogue is an insightful exchange that says as much about the sensitive disciple as about the witty, deprecating master...
...classic example of underestimation," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist for the National Industrial Conference Board, "is the Trillion-Dollar Economy." In terms of gross national product, the U.S. was not expected to reach this thousand-billion-dollar mark until about 1975. It now appears that the figure will be achieved either in 1970 or 1971. And a tremendous number of business and economic decisions rest upon accurate estimates of the G.N.P...