Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Updike's, too, is a bit of prose entitled "The Fading of the Fad." It is not good. Faddism is too old a topic to survive any but the best treatment. It does not receive...
...balanced contraptions of wood, metal or plastic have been suspended in the more modern-minded museums. Until recently, hardly anyone thought of these dangling doodles as suitable for the living room. But this year, with artists designing mobiles for commercial production, they seem to be growing into a national fad. A whole new minor industry is turning out thousands every day, from $1 up. Among the more interesting...
...Beacon Hill's population increased, Louisburg Square suffered a constant, if mild invasion of its private property. Contemptuous gas buggies parked in the space that was reserved for Louisburg residents. The residents were forced to recognize the new motor fad and resignedly hired a policeman to ticket illegal parkers. At times the trespassers have proved so numerous that the Proprietors have put up gates across each end of the Square to keep out inquisitive Boston...
...producers, their sensitive nerves tuned to public reaction, have made a calculated gamble that the interest is permanent rather than just a passing fad...
...from the back ground toward the camera, a group of men climbing an embankment on top of which sits the camera, a lion moving toward the camera through a field of tall grass these scenes utilize three dimension in a way to make it more than another fad, but until the industry can control this new technique, Bwana Devil will be mercy the first in a cervices of audience sensations...