Word: fads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laue is not the only glib man in the magazine. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 inconclusively uses the mass media as whipping boy for the bomb shelter fad. But he has a word of comfort: "an all-out attack, precipitated perhaps by the certitude of survival, will destroy many printing presses...
...must be a square. I just can't get with this popular race suicide, helter-skelter-shelter fad, as pleasurable as it sounds...
...been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose, and Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room...
...vehemently opposed. Even after the Houses were built, the CRIMSON bore malice to the system, and looked with democratic indignation at the "aristocratic tendencies" of Lowell House high table. In the early morning of 1932, when almost all the House units were already under way, the CRIMSON ridiculed the fad for House colors and emblems, and sarcastically foresaw "heraldic rabbits cavorting on Leverett pajamas...
...secular constitution. Moreover, if Panditji capitulated to Masterji's demands, he would antagonize the Punjab's nationalistic Hindus. Nehru also fears that if he were to give in, minority groups all over India would start to go on hunger strikes on every conceivable issue. Already the fasting fad has spread among the country's zealous crackpots: in Rajasthan, a peasant staged a two-week fast to protest a change in village boundaries; in Amritsar, one Yogi Surya Dev, who had begun a counterfast on the same day Masterji started his, continued to feed his soul by sniffing...