Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, where 1,100 people have gathered for dinner. Many of the women are dressed in long gowns. The men are in dinner jackets and patent-leather pumps. It is a merry, excited, optimistic crowd. In the center, sitting at a table on a round, raised platform is a rather penguinesque, stolid son of Norwegian immigrants, Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson. It is difficult to conjure up a truly merry Senator Jackson, but as he smiles and nods to well-wishers, he is obviously pleased this evening, happy in his work, which...
...claims the all but unique accomplishment of having created distinctive products for both the top and bottom of the line. In 1970 Knoll International, the firm that introduced the classic Saarinen "tulip" chair among many other designs, offered the new Held chair, a combination swivel-rocking chair made of leather-covered fiber glass with a rounded base...
More than any other device made by man, the automobile has shaped U.S. society, sparked its economy and tested its technology. Equally important, from the days of the migrating Okies in the 1930s through the leather-jacketed hot-rodders of the 1950s, the auto - and its use - has told much about American habits, values and problems. Today Americans are sharply scaling down their expectations. They are pulling in their purse strings. They are looking for more and more economy, utility and durability in the products that they buy. All of those trends are causing a major upheaval in the nation...
...your analyst about the ironies of the psychoanalytic movement. The aura of authority in sheepskin diplomas and overstuffed leather couches came too painfully for him to let on that analysts go mad, or that Freud sometimes showed his slip. He'd rather pretend that the great controversies and little embarrassments never happened, or are so far in the past that, well, who remembers them? Psychoanalysts may have been torn by cult politics then, but that's history, he would say, now it's a science...
...Your leather-bound classics with the cut India-leaf pages are hopelessly water-stained-those that did not sink on the coral reef coming in. And so the hypothetical question has become not what one Great Book but what one Great Reader would you want to be shipwrecked with on a desert island. For the past four decades, the right answer for the literate Robinson Crusoe has been Cyril Connolly, who died last November...