Word: flings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elite-are suggesting the "midi dress," with hem 4 in. below the knee. And in London, where the miniskirt was invented, such young mod newcomers as Ossie Clarke and Roland Klein are including mid-calf lengths in their fall lines. Says Clarke: "This summer will be one last fling to show your legs. Next year the idea will be to wrap 'em up warm...
...majors Both Peters and Welz are interested in graduate work, and if they don't progress in two summers of minor league ball they can forget their dreams, keep their money, and go on to law school after graduation. It is far better for them to have their experimental fling while they are young, educable, and deferred from the military draft...
This new look has made all the difference. In 1961, when Nancy joined Reprise Records (then owned by her father) after a disillusioning one-semester fling at college, she was strictly Carol Coed. Over the next five years, she cut 15 forgettable singles in a sweet-little-girl voice. Then, in late 1965, shortly after her four-year marriage to Singer Tommy Sands ended in divorce, she turned her career over to Songwriter Lee Hazlewood. He lectured her in the classic show-biz manner: "You're not a sweet young thing. You're not the virgin next door...
...effect on some unmarried girls. They feel that to take them regularly, calculatingly, in anticipation of a possible amorous encounter, would deprive them of a treasured "feeling of innocence" when the great moment arrived. For some of them, as for their boy friends, an essential element in a premarital fling is risk...
...month-long gap between Harvard's 14-week winter sports season and the brief 7-week spring fling is adequately filled each year by championship tournaments. But seldom has a post-season weekend been as interesting to Boston and Harvard fans as the one just passed...