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In your Essay on frugality [March 3] and the "waste not" philosophy, you neglected to point out that all those wonderful virtues, such as making leftover chicken hash, turning collars and sewing stockings, were performed by tireless live-in grandmas and stay-at-home, father-knows-best housewives. Women now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

It's true! Oxford cloth shirts with button down collars and Weejuns are de rigeur for MTSU men and women. And if you're not a preppie (as so many of us are--we even have prep schools down here, belive it or not!), you will probably wear clothes by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dixie Prep | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

Instead, he sticks to the original as a toddler cleaves to its mother. When he ventures to emulate the style of another production, it is the oft-shown movies--itself remarkably faithful to the script. In the film version, hundreds of upper-crust stiffs assemble for the Ascot opening day...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: My Frumpy Lady | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

I'm also thinking about my sins, asking forgiveness for going to the Hong Kong twice a week, for buying LaCoste shirts, for taking Nat Sci 150, and for harboring evil thoughts about the Red Sox. But it's not all that bad. I've resisted the temptation to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Year: Prayer Before Entering the Lions' Den | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

In the U.S., Allan Bakke became the Surgeon General, Muhammad Ali was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and John-John Kennedy took over the Tonight show ("Heeeeeeeere's Johnny-Johnny!"). The bankrupt Ivy League colleges announced they would sell expansion franchises. Children won the right to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: These Are the Good Old Days | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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