Word: faddishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow goldfish...
Similar objections came from two other Francis St. residents, one of whom cited the $115 a month rent figure as top expensive for young faculty members, and objected to the architecture as being faddish...
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by the composer; narrated by Librettist Jean Cocteau; Columbia). The famed Greek tragedy, telescoped by Cocteau into six scenes and sung in Latin with French narration. With its craggy outlines and dry orchestration, the score has a faddish sound (it was written 26 years ago), but there are moments of drama and fetching lyrical beauty. The voice parts are heavily emphasized, often obscure the orchestra...
...Most of them are arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they are all fighters with the mouth who like to play at social revolution between bouts of faddish chitchat and casual fornication...