Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the earliest days, Charles did his best to blend into the Trinity scenery. He shuffled about in baggy cord trousers and an old jacket, cooked his own breakfasts and bicycled to classes. He decided to try for a B.A. Much of his time was spent over his books, and in examinations at the end of his freshman year he wound up with the equivalent of an A minus average...
...modeling the collection of Ben Kahn, which included a wild Tibetan yak poncho. But Margie admits that she is still a bit young for such plumage, and told reporters that she was "glad to get back into my own clothes"-hip-huggers and an Army sergeant major's jacket...
Most first books of stories claim on the jacket that the author is at work on a novel, as though admitting to the public that stories are not enough for a writer to achieve. Jonathan Strong's stories are plenty. They recapture a time, they have a tone of their own. Never do they take a glitzy, Krackerjacks way out. Never does Strong dress what can be bare...
...record jacket is quite nice...
...Soviets don't throw their bearskin rug across more frontiers, then 1969 will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE don't change any money on the streets") and coaches them through customs ("Name, rank and serial number only...