Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminded the steelworkers that their hourly wages ($4.40, including benefits) were already one-third higher than the average for industrial workers; they hardly needed a massive, inflationary raise. Then, in stern-fatherly fashion, he urged both sides to weigh the grave damage a strike could wreak on the U.S. economy, on the war in Viet Nam. To underline his point, he noted that the record 116-day steel strike in 1959 had plunged the nation straight into a nine-month recession...
...ARTICLE ON FASHION IN TIME, DATED AUG. 13, DISPARAGES MY WINTER COLLECTION. NO PERSON FROM TIME'S ORGANIZATION HAS SEEN MY COLLECTION, AND I THEREFORE QUESTION TIME'S RIGHT TO HAVE ANY OPINION, EITHER FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE. THE STATEMENT THAT I "FLED" BEFORE THE COLLECTION HAD BEEN COMPLETELY SHOWN AND THAT THERE WAS NO APPLAUSE IS SIMPLY FALSE. IN FACT, THE MODELS WERE GENEROUSLY APPLAUDED SEVERAL TIMES...
...Mademoiselle Editor Kerr's remark about fashion editors who "can scarcely read" [Aug. 13]: Edith Raymond Locke, Mademoiselle's fashion editor, both reads and writes. Mrs. Locke is frequently called on to write copy and always writes her own. Shopping bags of reading material are brought home nightly, and her first book will be published this fall...
...prejudice against themselves. The preoccupation of many Negroes with hair straighteners, skin bleaches and the like often illustrates this aspect of self-prejudice, just as a wholehearted attempt by other Negroes to emphasize their Negroid features and hair texture shows their pride in their "negritude" a word currently in fashion in Negro communities. "Many
Married. Catherine Deneuve, 21, French film ingenue (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg); and David Bailey, 27, London fashion photographer; she for the first time, he for the second; in London...