Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first buds of spring were all ready to burst into bloom last week in London's ballrooms, nightclubs and charity bazaars. In the fashionable Berkeley Hotel, the horticulturists who had nursed them to maturity were gathered in solemn session. The mothers of this year's crop of debutantes were ostensibly meeting to make arrangements for a forthcoming fashion show, but their deeper purpose was to prepare a new spring catalogue of this season's night-blooming annuals...
...invented by Freshman Heffelfinger in his first Princeton game (score: Yale 10, Princeton 0), which was reported thus by the New Haven Register: "Both teams got in some quite respectable slugging, and the man who did not have a bloody nose and mouth was considered a little out of fashion...
...After 1918 the trend was reversed. More and more the emphasis . . . was placed on the contemporary scene . . . Since the second world war, it has become the fashion in survey courses to begin at about 1500 A.D. if the institution is conservative, and 1918 if it is not, with a quick flashback to 1917 in order to include the Bolshevik revolution ... If this trend is carried to its logical conclusion we shall indeed not have history in the curriculum, but only social studies which, with luck, will be contemporary civilization, and at worst, predictions of things to come based on statistics...
...American Week (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS) was a more uneven offering. Eric Sevareid started in major-league fashion with diagrammed displays of what would happen to big cities of the U.S. if they were targets of the H-bomb, and followed with filmed quotes from Physicist Ralph Lapp ("Let's have the facts given to the public") and ex-Diplomat George Kennan. But anticlimax followed with a "human interest" look at baseball and a too-long digression into the progress of the Wisconsin movement to vote the recall of Senator McCarthy. Sevareid announced that "I expect to use some...
Soprano Stevens was delighteu. "I wanted to do something new," she says, "and I wanted to do it at La Scala." She found the music modern but not radical; it gave her a chance to move about the stage in the tigerish fashion that has made her the favorite Carmen at the Met. But mounting a world premiere is no picnic, even for the vaunted Scala. The first dress rehearsal was disastrous, and in the five days before opening night opera officials and the stage-wise Stevens staff toiled 20 hours at a stretch, revising everything from scenery to dramatic...