Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Books and good booze (which he may never read or drink), praised by haberdashers and hairdressers for his swinging singularity (which he earnestly aspires to), and pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten-down husbands who, in comparison, begin to feel as tired and scruffy as a suburban lawn in a dry summer. The late John F. Kennedy, himself a swinging bachelor until 36, neatly framed both the stimulating and debilitating aspects of bachelorhood...
...table for eight-but you can change tables for any meal. This spring Hilton Hotels launched a special tour to Puerto Rico aimed at the singles market: "What can you expect for $133 on your Hilton Swingles Week in San Juan?" A welcoming cocktail and plenty of action, "fashion shows, cinema, horse racing, free feature motion pictures and a souvenir photograph of you and your new friends...Sound like your line of fun?" In the first four months, Hilton reported happily, it had 1,200 applicants-even if it was the off season...
...West Berlin Day" in Moscow? It was hard to believe, but there it was. Just as surprising, the name day was, of all things, part of an international fashion show. Though their hemlines and politics may not always coincide, West Germany and Russia now agree that the best way to improve relations is to improve trade, and lately both countries have been promoting the proposition with a vengeance. Berlin's honored place at last week's 27-nation International Fashion' Festival in Moscow marked a high point in the new spirit of cooperation...
...hopes to triple the volume of Berlin-Soviet trade this year, and Moscow's festival is sure to help. But though Berlin's fashion industry has made the biggest eastward strides, the city's Siemens and Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...
...perhaps the notion that pictures too could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic world in microcosm...