Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's ruling on the Bakke case seems to say that unadulterated race in quotas is unlawful but a dab of color mixed with other considerations is acceptable. It is like saying that saccharin is unacceptable in meeting the need for a sweetener but all right if mixed with other ingredients...
...Edwards, Steptoe's partner in the Oldham experiment, has advocated test-tube selection of the offspring's sex, though only to reduce such sex-linked diseases as hemophilia. Politician Abse fears that "we are moving to a time when an embryo purchaser could select in advance the color of the baby's eyes and its probable...
...workers aspire to jobs that involve ties. In William Inge's Picnic, Hal Carter speaks wistfully of a job "in a nice office where I can wear a tie and have a sweet little secretary." When dressing up, blue collar workers often like a loud yell of garish color, while upper middle class men tend toward more discretion...
...there alternatives? If the tie is one of a man's few opportunities to peacock a bit, then presumably a substitute must involve some color too-a brocade vest, a plumed hat. For summer at least, the newly revived turn-of-the-century collarless shirt, without the celluloid attachable collar, has possibilities. It is neat and extraordinarily comfortable. If only the collarless shirt did not reek so disagreeably of a sort of Bloomingdale's chic, which has the effect of somehow trivializing the wearer. For years Filipino men have managed to be both elegant and comfortable...
...traditional chorus of world champions and winners and beery fans. WORLD CHAMPIONS. The words were sinking in like the cold champagne in his shirt. Carlton Fisk was taping a Skoal commercial as Campbell popped the booze, and Ken Harrelson was modelling his most feathery and ridiculous hat for worldwide color television, and Howard Cosell stepped up to the star pitcher, pushing himself importantly through the mob, "Excuse me, let me thru, PLEASE, excuse...