Word: edens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Square can be either a wasteland or a garden of Eden for those in search of fashion. Those who decide what to put out on the shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this year as usual there are subtle changes. A recent looking spree corroborated this. It also confirmed the suspicion that the Square stocks much of the same trite, conservative clothing available everywhere, (though at prices often higher than any other place...
...Guinness tells it, Eden was something of a bore. "Eve could see that her man was becoming more and more indifferent to her charms. How was she to change the monotony of their lives?" Simple enough. "She picked a large beautiful leaf, and passed it over her face and hair, and then lower and lower along her body, until suddenly, the hand stopped. And Eve knew. And from that moment on the textile industry has ruled the world...
...sculpture of William Muir looks something like polished driftwood; but nature, with all her wisdom, cannot seem to match by accident what Muir shapes by design. With rasps, rifflers and chisels, he has liberated a splendiferous Eden filled with elegant new phyla of plant life. Now on view at Manhattan's Sculpture Center, Muir's subtly swiveling works exchange contours with the space that surrounds them, earning comparisons with the smooth biomorphic bulges that mark the sculpture of Arp, Moore and Brancusi...
Macmillan's departure coincides with a low point in the fortunes of his Conservative Party. Yet most of the goals Macmillan set himself on entering 10 Downing Street were resoundingly achieved. Since succeeding luckless Anthony Eden after the 1956 disaster of Suez, Macmillan has aimed at 1) recementing the Anglo-American alliance, 2) easing the cold war, 3) freeing the African continent, and 4) obtaining Britain's entry into the European Common Market...
...group watches a new movie. Also a photographer of considerable skill, Paley displays his albums to guests at home. In the kind of company he usually keeps, he is hardly picture-dropping, but a casual flip of the pages turns up some remarkable names and moments: Anthony Eden, thin as wire, stretched out in a bathing suit at Cap d'Antibes during a sojourn with the Paleys in 1953; Pablo Picasso, trying to look rakish and dashing as he stands to be photographed beside Mrs. Paley...