Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otis Redding's age was deceptive. He was 26 when he was killed but he seemed much older. This is largely because he had perfect taste and a disregard for fashion. For one thing, he never confused expressiveness with frenzy, the way Wilson Pickett often seems to do. Redding was absolutely uncompromised. He never felt obliged to cater to night-club audiences in the way Ray Charles does and Sam Cooke--who died three years to the day before Redding--did (though Cooke was coerced by the orientation of the company he recorded for). Redding was infinitely far from...
...live past 50, unless she took better care of herself, and that, she said, is exactly what her doctors told her. Her fortune confirmed my belief in the extreme accuracy of palmistry: I assure you that it is highly unusual for the life line to stop in such a fashion on both hands, and, in this case, as in many others, I found the lines to correspond closely with the facts...
...Viet Nam has already spread in a certain fashion, to at least three other Southeast Asian nations. The Communists have been freely using both Laos and Cambodia as supply depots and sanctuaries for their troops, and in Thailand they have been support ng an insurgency in the Northeast aimed both at harassing the Thais and distracting the U.S., which uses six Thai airbases to launch raids against North Viet...
...considerable intelligence. Also, Publisher-Politician Macmillan could write better than any contemporary politician except Winston Churchill and better than any publisher except Leonard Woolf. All these qualities are alive and present in his long second volume, which records six dismal years of World War II in far from dismal fashion...
...palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision in The Fall of Japan. Author Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics, Craig traces the origins of the kamikaze suicide squadrons, General Curtis LeMay's plans for a low-altitude fire-bomb attack on Tokyo, and the success of Japanese intelligence forces...