Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest fad is conversation. It is based on a new version of the old Hollywood conviction that the opinions of any performer, expressed with or without benefit of pressagent, are worth hearing. TV's talk fad has produced a flock of conversationalists who cheerfully regard themselves as a generation of bright, chatty vipers, convinced that they can turn banality into "frankness" and delight millions by their daring...
Unimpaired Spirit. Henderson's book not only introduces haiku in the clear accompanying text, but is the first really successful attempt at haiku translation. Through it, haiku may well become a fad on U.S. campuses. A professor of Japanese at Columbia University before his retirement four years ago, Henderson inherited from his father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which...
Mvusi has talked to many contemporary artists in his travels. Although his roots are in native Africa, he is against the "primitive art fad." Aside from a half dozen serious artists, he reports his own country's native artists are "mostly ignorant fellows blighted by curio seekers." Mvusi himself was the second Negro ever to have his work shown in South Africa's major national art exhibition...
...came by the craze in its own way. In Paris, Jacques de Saint-Phalle, whose respectable business has been the manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
Chamber of Artisans. In Britain more than a quarter-million hoops had been sold in one week before the fad reached the editorial attention of the London Times, a sure sign that normalcy is returning. In Poland-so far the only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...