Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aged fool heaves over a medieval chamber pot, is lured into bed by a seductive young thing who promptly decamps with the old man's clothes and money. Some were queasily off-color: a visiting sultan caresses a "lovely young boy" only to discover a female under the fabric. One of the most famous of the tales had to do with the scholar who revenged himself on the lady who deceived him by luring her naked to the top of a tower and leaving her there to be broiled by the sun and chewed by the mosquitoes...
...revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself-Yea, all which it inherit-shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep...
...Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling to third place, according to a retail buyers' survey made by the Boys...
...every desk was a precision-balanced draftsman's lamp; whole walls were covered with a fabric that would accept thumbtacks; through a first-of-its-kind telephone system, wives, friends and public-relations men could bypass the main switchboard, reach TIME people from anywhere in the U.S. by dialing LL6 and the appropriate extension. Interior decorators put up a fight for their geometrical inventions, but were mowed down by furniture-shifting editors with ideas of their own. Senior Editor A. T. Baker even brought along his old, scarred typing table. The new ones are built like wall shelves...
...must live by what we say. By our every action we must strive to make ourselves worthy of this trust, ever mindful that an accumulation of seemingly minor encroachments upon freedom gradually could break down the entire fabric of a free society. So persuaded, we shall get on with the task before us. So dedicated, and with faith in the Almighty, humanity shall one day achieve the unity in freedom to which all men have aspired from the dawn of time...