Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About "In Defense of Women" [April 15]: HAT PINS ARE NOT DEAD. We sell millions of them every year, and many women under 70 use them...
...reassurance in an uncertain world; "Do not introduce innovations," warns a Taoist maxim. Tradition ranges from philosophy to fashion, from faith to manners, from the highest regions of polity to the humdrum level of a city sidewalk. (Will the last woman who saw the last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today, it is difficult to find any institution or idea that people dare uphold primarily in the name of tradition-not God, not country, and certainly not Yale, not the sanctity of motherhood or of private property, not even...
...from Big Organization, it has lost much of its cohesiveness-joint vacations for parents and even slightly older children have become a rarity. Paternal authority, long on the wane, is being undermined further. What the doctrines of Freud failed to do to father-and Freud himself is now old hat among the young-the knowledge explosion accomplished. After all, it is difficult to remain the fount of wisdom while the junior members of the family discourse expertly on the new physics. There is little force left in family rulings as to what careers to choose or where...
...gives you a sense of the comedy, the gossip, and finally the tragedy of the group's lives. I don't know if the group' reaction to communism, psychoanalysis, and sex is typical of the 30's but it seems right in the movie. The Group is old hat, '33 to be exact, but well done old hat...
...Casting of Ethel Scull" is old hat around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without...