Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Dress. The surprising thing is that the students do seem to be learning far more than at their previous schools, and Pacific High graduates have done well on college board exams, a big aid in university admission since the school is not accredited. "If you are insecure, you will really fall apart here," says Betsy Hammer, 16, who quit San Jose's big Lincoln High School, now finds that she actually works harder and enjoys it more. Tom Pillsbury, 16, who was twice suspended from Ignacio Valley High for long hair, is now absorbed in Pacific...
...Lichtenstein, 44, the Leonardo of the funnies, has attracted 20,000 people in his first ten days at London's august Tate Gallery, where he is the first living American to be given a full-dress retrospective. Critics rhapsodized over his Ben Day dots and thought balloons, his deadpan spoofs of modern art, his tear-stained blondes and stone-faced Steve Canyon heroes. Said the London Observer: "The calmest crystallizer of our generation, a kind of Ingres from Manhattan...
...years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted-out 1960 Buick went...
...touch with the mass of older people in Adzope is weak, and it really only shows in the occasional festivals and public rallies. August 7th, or any day when a politician passes through, Adzope sprouts orange-white-and-green flags, people dress up in their best, and dance troupes show off special costumes, songs, and folk dances. Someone makes a party speech--for the one party, the Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire--the sous-prefet shows off his glittering best uniform, party faithfuls collect medals, Adzope's wheezing brass band coughs the national anthem, and people go wild dancing...
Just as Johnson's libretto ignores the differences between '40's movies and '60's musicals, Styne and Harburg's songs are ancient in their inspirations. Harburg seems to have completely missed the lyrical revolution epitomized by Frank Loesser's How to Succeed, in which words like "Some irresponsible dress manufacturer" were set to music. The lyrics to Married Alive are still drawn from the same preposterous vocabulary (love, tree, rainbow, etc.) that dominated the worst of Hart and Hammerstein...