Word: faddishness
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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...
From an experiment, Princeton's unique club system has passed through the stages of phenomena and faddish, and now must prove itself an asset to the college as well as institution...
...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...