Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dress will be "indecent" if worn ten years before its time, and "daring" if worn a year before, "smart" the year of its coming of age, and "hideous" ten years after. But it will become "amusing" 30 years after its vintage year, and ultimately it may become "romantic" or even "beautiful." The same sort of pattern, Laver maintains, can be traced in interior decoration and design. He may be right...
...same fashion that Art Nouveau was a decade or so ago. The Cubist-patterned rugs and lacquered sideboards mother threw out daughter eagerly buys in thrift shops. The tubular lamps and muscular lobby murals that embarrassed board chairmen ten years ago are now sought by youthful cultists and even a few museums. Somewhere along the way, the style acquired a name: Art Deco...
Like camp, Art Deco is an acquired taste-and not everyone wants to acquire it. Part fad, part cultivated eccentricity, it will survive in a scattering of artifacts. But not even its greatest admirers would commend it as a model of form for the future...
Population planners hope that, at least in the U.S., pills and other contraceptive devices will soon be available to every couple that wants them. Yet even then, the nation's population will keep growing at an alarming rate. The reason is simple but often overlooked, according to Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for health and scientific affairs. "The typical American family," he told a Planned Parenthood conference last week, "will elect to have three children...
André Previn was enlisted, even though he and Lerner never seemed to be able to get together. "It seems to me that we wrote Coco by screaming at each other as we passed in airports," Previn says. When they finally buckled down to it, they worked out an ego-saving shorthand to communicate lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That...