Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHORT LIFE, Social Relations 148 has raised important educational issues for Harvard, and indeed, for many American colleges. These issues spring not so much from the course's content as from its structure. They are issues which should be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved in a stop-gap fashion for this course alone...
...typical fashion, Shaw went to the front early. By the mile mark he was joined by captain Doug Hardin, and the two of them held a slight lead over the top U-Mass trio and Providence pacesetter Marty Robb. Moving smoothly in contrasting running styles, Shaw and Hardin gradually cased away to a thirtyyard lead at the three-mile point...
...their lifetime many writers have been exposed, in the press and from the platform, to insults and slander without having any opportunity to reply. What is more, they have been exposed to violence and physical persecution. The board of the Writers' Union in cowardly fashion abandoned to their misfortune those whom persecution finally condemned to exile, to the concentration camp, to death. After the 20th Party Congress (1956) we learned that there were more than 600 writers who were guilty of no crime and whom the union obediently left to their fate in the prisons and the camps...
...furs. But by last week, the space had been remodeled, with huge plate-glass windows, an aluminum tunnel entrance and, inside, distinctive orange carpeting that climbed right up the walls. It had become Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche, his boutique beachhead in the U.S. And in the fashion world, Yves's name is magic. Along the police barricades, students from nearby fashion schools and aspiring models draped themselves, many in versions of the CityPants that Saint Laurent has declared the Now look...
...American director, the prodigious Orson Welles, adapting an Isak Dinesen anecdote. The works of the Scandinavian taleteller resemble rows of icicles, gelid, brittle and pure. To bend them is to break them; to lend them warmth is to make them lose their integrity. Even Welles has been unable to fashion more than a laborious, misshapen exercise. The reasons are obvious. This is his first film in color-an inappropriate mode for a fiction written in etched, formal prose, devoid of the sensual palette. Secondly, because the movie was made for television, its time is arbitrarily restricted to an hour...