Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood usual to Southern novelists: a coverall elegiac sadness. It is a bad time, he suggests, for all. His sociology, to judge by nonfiction accounts, is accurate. But what emerges is less a sense of history than a sense of style. The faultless hat is held over the faultless jacket over the faultless heart. All is stoic gallantry in a tradition that seems, at last, more correct than moving-a special kind of theater. And what is that exotic yet all too familiar sound in a reader's ear? Somewhere in the mythic South, where white pillars are carved...
Senior Yearbooks from the early days of the Pusey era frequently contain pictures of the new president, his hair not yet gray, and often wearing a casual looking sweater under his tweed jacket, sipping sherry with undergraduates. In those days, he was still the hero of American academics, the man who had fought the right wing demon and defeated him. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences commended him in an unusual resolution, and he was featured on an Omnibus program. His door was still open to the press, which heaped him with praise...
...Dark shoes, dark socks, dark pants, a dark tie, and a white shirt are suggested as your basic dress. You will be issued a white jacket to wear at all times on the job. Your appearance should be neat and clean. Beards should be trimmed and haircuts should be reasonably neat. Beyond this, it is to your advantage to have rain gear for bad weather. Umbrellas are useful and can add to your tips. In fact, all these dress and appearance suggestions are made to benefit your tips...
...young: Joseph Blatchford, 37, head of the Peace Corps since early in the Administration and a unique figure in Nixon's button-down Washington. His sideburns are long, his hair falls over his shirt collar, and on occasion he has been seen sporting a fringed leather jacket. One morning during the Mayday demonstrations, Blatchford emerged from his Georgetown house into a crowd of militants. They watched suspiciously as he donned a white helmet and straddled his Yamaha 275 motorcycle. Unrecognized, he flashed the peace sign and rode off to work...
Quite noticeable was Mrs. A. G., the former countess of Malfi, who was sensationally decked out in a long refugee coat by Mendes, tabbed and belted in webbing. It matched her bermudas matched to the cozy-collared, double-breasted battle jacket. On the lower level she was footed in Emm??? newly-designed shoes, like laced-up tennis sandals on thick crepe soles, in prairie green banded with jonquil yellow. She oohed and aahed the most when Canonero was brought out from his stall and admitted to being wild about all things Latin...