Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philippines from top to bottom. Today's generation was taught to steal from those in authority as a matter of patriotic duty in the chaotic wartime years of Japanese occupation, and the habit has lingered on. Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family...
...Bomarzo, the first important opera ever composed by an Argentine. For a while, Bomarzo was the pride of the government. For its world premiere three months ago, it was exported to Washington, where First-Nighter Hubert H. Humphrey found it "difficult, discordant and different"-although in good-neighborly fashion, he added, "It has distinction." Then, just before the opera's scheduled opening in Buenos Aires this month, Ongania changed his mind and decided that it was "too obsessed with sex." He banned it forthwith...
Confidence & Cooperation. Credit for Europoort's amazing progress rests squarely with Rotterdam's politicians and businessmen. Rather than wait for a blessing by the national government at The Hague, they have gone ahead with plans in a fait accompli fashion. Last year, for example, the Rotterdammers decided to deepen the port's sea channel to accommodate tankers up to 225,000 tons (present capacity is 130,000). The first of these giants is expected at the end of this year, and the entire project should be completed by late 1969. Typically, by the time The Hague gave...
Body into Dress. Biographer Weintraub (T. E. Lawrence, William Golding) evokes the life and times of Beardsley in splendid fashion, but presumably feels that he lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part pagan myth, part Oriental mystery. It was a world inhabited by satyrs and hermaphrodites, dwarfs and dandies, by women either ornamentally angular and boyish or monstrously fat and corrupt. Often they were nude or seminude, but their bodies seemed merely part of their fantastically elaborate dress. His illustrations for such...
...neither a public servant, nor an executive, nor an administrator does not conform to ideological standards. His views have always related to himself, his family, and his restaurant rather than to government. He has never understood the legislative functions of the governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming governor, but otherwise...