Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salk's achievement and Einstein's death. These events were conveniently spaced in weekly intervals and tens of thousands of your readers must have been looking forward to seeing these great men pictured on the cover. To be greeted instead by the true likeness of nuns and fashion designers was surely an anticlimax...
...guess I like that one on Mrs. McKinley." Ida Saxton McKinley was indeed handsome in high-necked, ivory-hued satin with flowing train. Not pretty oldfashioned? asked a newshen. "Well, I guess so," Ike admitted, reluctant to be pinned down any more on the sensitive subject of feminine fashion. To escape, he scanned the room for Mamie and, not seeing her, fled, exclaiming, "Hey, I've lost a wife...
Turning back to past glories, especially to the prosperous days of 1900, is a current French fad. To youth this fashion seems only an attempt to camouflage the weaknesses of the present. Whatever his class, the young Frenchman has during the past ten years watched the old institutions crumble, has seen nothing new emerge to take their place. Instead, he has been offered economic stagnation, social emptiness and political hypocrisy, all smothered in flowery oratory and nostalgic festivity...
Even in the most comfortable middle-class families, housing can become a psychological problem for youth. A 25-year-old fashion designer earns $230 a month, a whopping salary for her age. But she must live with her parents. It would cost half her wage to find a furnished flat with the comfort she now has; it would take $3,000 "key money" to get an unfurnished apartment. "It could be worse," she says philosophically, "but it's bad enough. I can't give a party. I can't invite someone in for a drink...
...magazine illustrators, points up a side of his own work which draws sneers from younger, advance-guard painters. Illustration is anecdotal, as Hopper's art is not; he avoids cute touches and tells no story. Yet because his sober realism is as different from the abstractionism now in fashion as it is from straight illustration, some abstractionists dismiss him as a mere illustrator. His pictures lack "paint quality," they say, and indeed he does lay paint on canvas as dryly and flatly as any calendar painter. But Hopper's purpose is not to seduce the eye with dribbles...