Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strindberg, Nietzsche and Rilke, Tolstoy and Chekhov, all of whom surely have "helped shape the contemporary mind" to a far greater degree than Ivy Compton-Burnett or Henri Michaux. What about Marinetti and Cavafy and Karel Capek and Federigo Garcia Lorca and other influential thinkers who did not happen to write in English or French...
...danger, the U.S. is not yet suffering from the serious inflation that precedes, and frequently causes, severe economic trouble. Lyndon Johnson noted last week that, as far as he could tell, the economy was not "shooting off into outer space." It is to make sure that this does not happen that Johnson all week -in public and in private, over telephone and microphone-exhorted everyone from housewife to Governor, labor leader to corporation head, to fight off inflation by clamping a tight rein on his spending. "The amber light is on," he warned. "We must see that some restraint...
...seat belts are uncomfortable to sit on, and frustrated drivers have used fists, hammers and screw drivers to bollix the red-flashing "Fasten Seat Belts" sign in the Ford Thunderbird. Psychologists reckon that people reject the seat belt because it is a fear-inducing reminder that accidents can happen, and it insults their ability to avoid them; many would rather indulge their foolhardy feelings of derring-do and invulnerability or their fatalistic instincts that "when it's my turn to go, I'll go." But Detroit is beginning to realize that safety can be salable. Meanwhile American Motors...
...logical next step, but whoever thought it would happen this soon. After paper plates, cutlery and dresses, the ever-expanding paper industry has now moved into furniture...
...Come on, be a sport. Nothing will happen to you," Segal promised. So Ethel reluctantly agreed, began making preparations by buying a cheap $4 house dress. But friends, including Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman, objected. Said he: "Ethel, this is for posterity. As a fashionable woman, how can you wear anything but Courreges?" In the end, she settled for a $45 copy of a Courreges dress that she already owned, but her white Courreges boots were for real. Then, with her hair done by Kenneth, she showed up with her husband at Segal's studio for the pour...