Word: folkways
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...overall standings after yesterday season and as folkway 1--Harvard, 126; 2--Brown, 112; 3--Corwell 94; 4--Army, 93.5:5--Princeton...
...only one. Around her, bedecked with beads, boots, faded Levi's, granny dresses, stovepipe hats, bells and tambourines, 50,000 members of the turned-on generation celebrated the rites of life, liberty and the pursuit of hippiness. That pursuit is by now a familiar national folkway, which, as often as not, is set to the beat of pop music. Indoors, it comes complete with pulsing lights, blinding flashes of projected photographs and whorls of smoke. Outdoors, it all seems more healthy, and in this instance, the seekers at Monterey had assembled not for a freak...
...Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, observed that "meetings of this sort are in many ways an exercise in futility because the unconvinced don't come. But the ritual is good for our souls, and at least we know we have participated in the preservation of a grand old American folkway...
...been one of man's favorite forms of fun. About the only peacetime substitute is a good riot-and riots just don't happen every day of the week. They are beginning to happen on Labor Day weekend, though, regularly enough to constitute a new teen-age folkway. This year's rash of riots included...
...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...