Word: fads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fad Coming. These were fragments from A Song for the Dance of Death, by the late Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode, performed on CBS's religious series, Lamp Unto My Feet. The program's host hailed Ghelderode as a sort of dark messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
Every few years, a fashion gimmick sweeps locustlike out of Paris onto the fields of fad. After the "sack look" and the "trapeze line" came the craze for "culottes"-dress-length pants divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like skirts. This year, as the release last week of the first photographs of the Paris fall collections showed, the day of the gimmick has come again. Sequel to the culotte: skirts divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like pants...
...cover promises stories on whats up, down, in and out among todays chic young ladies. Whats in is the "fresh young Carolyn Kennedy look...America's last fad in fun and finery; i.e. petite casualness, with just a touch of mischief." Whats awards, one of which goes to Mrs. Krobe Edusi. She wins the citation for courageous good taste in boudoir furnishings. Mrs. Edusi, the wife of Ghanas ex-Minister of Industry, purchased a gold-plated bed at the height of her country's austerity program...
Died. Yves Klein, 34, farthest out of Paris' painters, a Dutch figurative artist's son who became a high-priced Parisian fad for his solid color (International Klein Blue) canvases, progressed to employing paint-slathered nudes as ''living brushes"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Only once every five years does the American Academy of Arts and Letters give its Award of Merit Medal to a painter-a procedure that prevents hasty recognition of a talent that might turn out to be only one year's fad. Last week, as if underlining its case for judging in perspective, the academy presented the award and $1,000 to an artist who is three years retired from a careful half-century of working in a style far removed from the painting that dominates today's galleries...