Word: modishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...
...critic who detected homosexual themes in Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy's lines. Effectively disguised as a short-story writer, Fiedler turns out, in Pull Down Vanity, a collection of tales of the kind favored lately by modish literary quarterlies and intellectualoid slicks. They constitute the sort of kitsch fiction-as stylized as the whodunit or science fiction-in which every thought, character and experience is as nauseating as possible...
Regret is the modish literary emotion this spring; rue is back in fashion; hope's hemline has been let down to fit the century's middle age. So it seems, at any rate, on the evidence of two collections of criticism published this week...
...Togliatti's double-breasted suits had become the symbol of Italy's "respectable" Communism, seeking power not through revolution but in Parliament and at the polls. These days, more and more Italian comrades wear well-cut grey flannel, while their women appear at party functions in modish sweaters with tasteful single strands of pearls. But right now there are some bad rips in the party's grey-flannel respectability...
...taken out for an 11 p.m. "walk," a chore that traditionally falls to the man of the household. Among pedigreed cats, most popular breed is the seal-point Siamese, followed closely by the bluepoint Siamese: these two account for 80% of U.S. purebred-cat sales. The once modish Persian is sold to only about 8% of the cat customers-mostly women and children, who like the Persian's fluffy coat. However, only 4% of all U.S. cats are registered...