Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldberg simply refused to tackle a number of questions. He had an opportunity to argue that the aims of American policy are of greater priority than its most distressing drawbacks -- the widespread death and desolation inflicted on non-Communist civilians. Goldberg, in typical well-meaning fashion, responded that there is too much killing already and that it is his aim, and presumably the President's, to "build some sense in the world community...
...Rumania's youth of Western influence, the Communists have also decided that bare legs are as bad as shaggy chins. Though red-blooded Rumanians like to think of Bucharest as "the Paris of the Balkans," the authorities have also banned miniskirts. When nubile girls came upon some Western fashion magazines and began drawing up their skirts over the knee, the regime began dressing down the culprits. The styles quickly changed, but the Rumanian girls, most of whom are their own seamstresses, did not completely toe the party hemline. The latest style is the knee-length skirt that...
...first time since Courrèges lifted hemlines two years ago - thus ushering in the yé-yé look and youth cult that nearly blew haute couture as well as skirts sky-high - there was news aplenty last week from the big high-fashion houses of Paris. Out to prove that yé-yé is only soso, 36 top designers presented new collections for spring and summer, striking out in all sorts of new directions...
...history-choked metropolitan mélange is not at all the thing for a modern industrial nation. Importing the "new towns" concept from other European countries and the U.S., Milanese Financier Renxo Zingone, 58, is pushing a somewhat heretical "desire to build cities in a rational, non-chaotic fashion"-and at a profit...
...immediately reimposed the same old colonial order. Thus was the stage set for Dien-bienphu, partition and the present war. Historian Schlesinger concedes with disarming candor that history is a terribly "tricky" tool for predicting the future. In the long run, he writes, history "can answer questions, after a fashion"-but as the late economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "in the long run, we are all dead." As for the short run, "the salient fact about the historical process," says Schlesinger, "is its inscrutability." Of all the ideas explored in this lucidly written book, that is the one guaranteed...