Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies, who so obviously work hard to say to hell with the world, are deliberately inviting the same reaction from the world. I realized long ago that the world hadn't expected me and that it was up to me to fit in. I haven't quite made it, but I don't think it is at all bright...
...photograph of John F. Kennedy, which ran less than a year after his assassination, was patently concocted for shock. Another cover showed a morose nude jammed, derriere-first, into a garbage can. The article it advertised-"The New American Woman: through at 21" -was so heavily rewritten (seemingly to fit the cover illustration) that Freelance Writer Harlan Ellison refused to let Esquire use his byline. The article described a pseudotypical Los Angeles woman, prone to suicide, sexually jaded, hooked on pills and astrologically obsessed, who was supposed to be the wave of the future for all American women coming into...
...older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans do; we drink Coca-Cola just as they do. An artist's work is composed of various sources. They include tradition, but they must also include the manner of life of man today...
...wish," laments Dionne Warwick, 26, in. "someone would tell me where I fit in" That's easy. She is the best new female pop-jazz-gospel-rhythm-and-blues singer performing today...
...appearance of this book suggests that Cuban censorship is relatively tolerant of "self-criticism," particularly in fiction. Besides, the underlying tone is not really anti-Castro; it is apolitical. Malabre is a typical declasse, a man who loathes his fellow bourgeois but cannot fit himself into the proletariat. The revolution goes on without his help or hindrance, though he makes frequent but feeble efforts to write stories in the accepted style of "socialist realism." He seems to prove that though political systems come and go, the alienated man-or worm-never changes...