Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...
...congressional strategist: "He's one of the best who ever came down the pike. He moves when you don't know that he's moving, and his greatest talent is his tenacity and his endurance. Most Administration measures will not be handled in a rubber-stamp fashion. They'll be altered in the committees and altered on the floor. But they can be passed without the cliffhanging operations we've had in the last few Congresses...
...methods, too, King has lagged. Two groups, SNCC and CORE, have a policy of remaining in the areas that they enter, developing local leadership, and sharing the victories, the defeats, and the risks that the local people experience. King, however, operates in a hit-and-run fashion. When he moves into an area, he is neither familiar with past efforts, nor in touch with the local people. In Albany, Ga., in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he selected a city where other civil rights groups were already working, flew in for several weeks, fired up local Negroes to heated protests...
Plucking the silk strings claw-hammer fashion with his right hand, Eto drew an incisive, harplike sound from the koto. As if feeling a pulse, his left hand roamed the length of the instrument, deftly depressing the vibrating strings in order to vary tones and lend the tinge of melancholy that is the unique trait of the koto. The opening melody, sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement...
...nation's department stores has risen during the past decade from $5.02 to $6.12, and the crucial consumer-the one who does most of the buying-now earns between $8,000 and $15,000 a year. Tastes have expanded along with incomes, to the extent that fashion has become a deciding factor even in the children's departments; colors and styles that catch on with adult shoppers quickly move into the children's market as well. Among Macy's current bestsellers are Spanish-styled cribs made of walnut and boys' slacks cut along Italian lines...