Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation of her mother's impending event by crying tearfully: "All men are horrible!" The ribaldry of Never Too Late will seem rather unnecessarily self-conscious to many a potent sexagenarian, but Paul Ford's drollery compensates for a lot of dearie-me foolishness...
...Semi-Conscious...
...dead theologians are the reductio ad absurdum of American Protestant theology. When they have not fallen into the perennial heresy of gnostic mysticism, like Altizer, they are conscious or unconscious followers of Durkheim, in that the real object of their worship is 20th century culture, particularly 20th century intellectual culture. They put themselves in the ridiculous position of saying to God, "Either come up to us 20th century intellectuals or get out." It would be a mistake to take them too seriously...
Less Rumpled. Slow to get used to the feel of the latest synthetics, Europeans are taking to the wool-like acrylics (such as Orion) and the moisture-proof polyesters (Dacron) with a will. Even wool-conscious Britain has accepted the addition of synthetics to wool, which makes for more durable pleats and a less rumpled look. Five years ago, the German clothing industry used almost no synthetics; now it weaves acrylics and polyesters into everything from socks to sweaters, has transformed the brassiere and girdle business by introducing Du Font's stretchable Lycra fiber. The Swedes practically live...
...improves Lerner's book by ignoring it. A totally extraneous injection of vitality is supplied by Greek actor Titos Vandis who comes on in Act II as an Onassis-like character and changes with delightful inconsistency into Zorba the Greek. The lust for lust is a trifle self-conscious in a big, scurrying Herbert Ross dance (At the Hell-rakers') in which girls are hustled across the stage like silhouettes in a military class for aircraft recognition. Robert Lewis has directed the entire enterprise as if he were killing time, which in the case of Clear...