Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words are earnest and appropriate enough for the diminutive figure in the white dress on the stage of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Joyfully middleclass, fiftyish, a lady who likes fine clothes, Kathryn Kuhlman looks for all the world like dozens of the women in her audience. But hidden underneath the 1945 Shirley Temple hairdo is one of the most remarkable Christian charismatics in the U.S. She is, in fact, a veritable one-woman shrine of Lourdes. In each of her recent services-in Los Angeles, Toronto and her home base of Pittsburgh-miraculous cures seem to occur...
...While it is true that some parents have abdicated their role and are desperately attempting to hold on to their children through permissiveness, "being a pal," aping their dress and customs, etc.. the majority of us will continue to guide and educate our children, not the reverse...
...popular-if least socially significant-of all the shirts are those featuring Batman or Superman emblems, or one of a host of cartoon characters that include Porky Pig, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck (who is smoking a joint), Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There is even a superman undershirt dress, which the wearer can presumably don in the nearest available phone booth...
MANNERS AND FASHION. Dress will be more androgynous, with class symbols becoming more important than sexual ones. Pro-or anti-Establishment styles may already be more vital than who is wearing them. Hardhats are just as likely to rough up antiwar girls as antiwar men in the street, and police understand that women are just as likely to be pushers or bombers. Dances haven't required that one partner lead the other for years, anyway. Chivalry will transfer itself to those who need it, or deserve respect: old people, admired people, anyone with an armload of packages. Women with...
...those with nostalgia for a simpler past, here is a word of comfort. Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer studied the few peaceful human tribes and discovered one common characteristic: sex roles were not polarized. Differences of dress and occupation were at a minimum. Society, in other words, was not using sexual blackmail as a way of getting women to do cheap labor, or men to be aggressive...