Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whipped Icicle. Among the recognized leaders is Los Angeles' Larry Bell, 28, who began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses...
...took a lot of nerve to advocate the use of pacifiers. After the war, the pacifier (a little plastic disc with a nipple on the end which babies suck to calm their nerves) was out of fashion for obvious reasons. But Spock, who has never let chauvinists or militarists bother him, pushed for social acceptance of the pacifier--clearly one of the major reasons we have so many pacifists around...
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of the Fashion Foundation of America. That would be General William Westmoreland, 53, U.S. commander in Viet Nam and the leading figure on this year's list of best-dressed men. Westmoreland was chosen, said the Fashion Foundation's Charles Richman, because "when you see a military man in a really trim uniform, a thrill goes through you-that's what uniforms are for." The general has yet to be told of his latest victory. "After all," Richman explained, "there...
Despite a few grumbles from musicians getting used to the new hall, a black-tie audience at the inaugural concert found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable...
...Selfridges Oxford Street store, 48 interpreters struggled to cope with the crush of Continentals snapping up fashion garments, bedding, appliances, children's and men's wear. British European Airways put on extra flights, and Air France switched from 90-seat Caravelles to 180-seat Boeing 707 jets to help carry the bargain hunters. Harrods, the elegant Knightsbridge store, experienced a run on "everything English"-Liberty prints, fabrics, scarves, china and glass. Said Managing Director Alfred Spence: "We have known nothing like it in 50 years. Sales...