Word: countertrends
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...mannequins in department-store windows traditionally are posed in attitudes of stiff propriety. But a countertrend is under way at some fashionable stores, spurred by young window dressers who group their figures to enact little immobile dramas of sex, bizarre fantasy, even suicide-just about anything that will make a jaded passer-by stop and look. Explains Candy Pratts, 26-year-old window designer for Bloomingdale's in New York: "You've got to reach anybody who walks...
...fact that Americans like to go fast, and that, however sensible, speed limits of 55 and 60 m.p.h. would be extremely difficult to enforce. Americans this year have bought more automobiles than ever - the majority of them still overpowered, low-mileage behemoths. A better solution could lie in the countertrend among the ecology and economy buffs toward lower-powered cars. In recognition of that trend, Ford Motor Co. last week opened a new $100 million plant in Lima, Ohio, to build four-cylinder engines, which have not been manufactured in the U.S. since the model...
Paradoxically, during roughly the same period, assimilation ran into a countertrend. Orthodox and Conservative Jewry experienced a pronounced new growth in the U.S. Orthodox Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik describes the change: "When I came here in the 1930s [from Germany], there was a certain naivete, a great pride, a confidence in the American way of life. I'm not sure what the American way of life was, but everyone?including a great many Jews ?thought it was best. Jews wanted to disappear." That attitude began to shift, first merely in reaction to the Nazi disaster that had befallen Germany...
This has been the steady trend for two generations. Can a countertrend be detected? Not in the expectable places. A recent issue of a weekly business newsletter said that its authors had made the rounds of Washington lobbyists in an effort to find where the pressures were on taxes. The common denominator of lobby policy: opposition to any reduction in the personal income tax. The reason: the lobbyists assume that any cut in the personal income tax would be replaced by higher taxes on business...
...there is a chance that even the income tax is subject to the change that affects all things terrestrial. A countertrend is building up-in the last place to look...