Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fabric is also a keynote this year. The ruling thought is to make wood look like cloth, cloth look like fur, and fur look like fabric. Dacron has coped the crown from rayon, nylon, et al. Poodle cloth is indistinguishable from persian lamb, and the glittering sheen of furs resembles satin more than sable...
...Lamb Chops & Martinis. Wampler promptly went after and won big defense contracts. During World War II, Carrier equipment air-conditioned ships, defense plants and Government buildings (its Pentagon installation is the biggest air-conditioning system in the world), kept food cold for the armed forces, simulated the low temperatures of high altitudes in wind tunnels. Once, on a hurry-up job for two synthetic rubber plants, Wampler yanked out the air-conditioning system in Manhattan's swank Tiffany & Co. jewelry store and shipped it to Oklahoma and Texas. To save space, Carrier devised a system which eliminated large cooling...
THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp.) -Harold Lamb-Doubleday...
...only surprising thing about Theodora and the Emperor is that it took Harold Lamb so long to get around to it. Subject and author could hardly be more naturally joined: little is known for sure about the private life of Emperor Justinian, even less about his wife Theodora, but Harold Lamb is an old hand at bridging historical gaps. He once wrote a whole book about so shadowy a figure as Poet Omar Khayyam, and made it sound plausible at that. Now, working his imagination overtime, and with a large assist from Justinian's court historian, Procopius, Author Lamb...
...Author Lamb tells their story, the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...