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Word: longish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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George of Beverly Hills wears his own hair on the longish side, but cautions women against too much hair-fullness. "Women." he says, "should look like little European boys. Their hair should be short and cropped. Any woman who will not wear her hair that way is basically very insecure. And Kenneth, with his big poufy bouffant jobs, is just too jazzy for me". Mrs. Kennedy, believe me, could look a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: And Now, George | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Like many another kid in West New York, N. J., Alfred Siefker, 17, wears a longish haircut, low-slung pegged trousers and a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. The style suggests the drugstore cowboy, but under the disguise Alfred practices a different skill. He is already a dedicated scientist who has just rewritten a chapter of paleontology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Flight | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...borne of shallow generalization (itself generally the result of ignorance); and this sin Mr. MacDonald freely, even joyfully commits. His first essay was full of misty historical-sociological speculations on High Culture and Mass Culture; his second though not as abundant in middlebrow historiography is still decidedly fertile. One longish quotation will suffice: "The turning point in our culture was the Civil War, whose aftermath destroyed the New England Tradition almost as completely as the October Revolution broke the continuity of Russian culture. (Certain disturbing similarities between present-day America and Soviet Russian culture and society may be partly...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Partisan Review | 11/17/1960 | See Source »

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