Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour, up from 75? a year ago). She has furnished the house with used pieces rather than new furniture. She thought of economizing by making her own clothes, but concluded that there would be no saving "because the price of fabric has skyrocketed. To make an average dress, including lining, costs...
October 3: Student and Faculty members revived the yearly struggle over dress standards in the Houses. The Faculty Committee on Houses--made up of deans and House Masters--offered to scrap the "rule" requiring coats and ties at all meals and replace it with a "well-defined expectation" that students would wear coats and ties at dinner. The Harvard Undergraduate Council objected, saying that individual House Committees should be able to decide for themselves...
...work on a novel, as though admitting to the public that stories are not enough for a writer to achieve. Jonathan Strong's stories are plenty. They recapture a time, they have a tone of their own. Never do they take a glitzy, Krackerjacks way out. Never does Strong dress what can be bare...
...fact that today's collegians are more concerned with life-styles than with life work. Many of those whom FORTUNE recently called "forerunners" (perhaps 40% of all students) have apparently soured on individualism. They put their trust in "community," the keenly emotional solidarity of the young-in song, dress and politics-against the alleged hostility of those in the outside world, especially older people...
...visiting in rooms. "It was not as much a question of morality as it was one of inconvenience," says John Yarborough, the college's director of housing. "If Willie likes to sleep late on Sundays, he doesn't like the idea of having to get up and dress to be presentable when his roommate's girl drops by." Aw, come on, Willie...