Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking in Oxford, England, Saturday, Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School told British lawyers that a lawyer's work is "by no means as exclusively practical as British practitioners have been in the habit of believing...
...stretchable textured yarn hit the slopes, making ski pants a stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient after it is woven) left cottons and wools horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther with the discovery of a core-spun process (with spandex as the core around which staple...
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.; A.B.(1958) Princeton, B.A.(1960) Oxford, Ph.D. (1964) Harvard...
...oldest universities in the English-speaking world, Oxford and Cambridge are architectural amalgams of virtually every style from 13th century Romanesque through Gothic and Tudor to Victorian. Somehow all the styles blend in a nobly ancient mix of ornate walls, curlicued towers, spires, domes and gables, archways, turrets, gargoyles and waterspouts. The atmosphere is that of a contemplative sanctuary, the world where Wordsworth recorded "Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven." Gowned scholars still mount gloomy stair wells to their dark, dank digs...
Escape with a Dane. The more avant-garde is $7,700,000 St. Catherine's College at Oxford, which accepted its first students two years ago although it is still being completed. The college was designed by Danish Architect Arne Jacobsen, 62, creator of Copenhagen's glass-packaged Royal Hotel, who believes that "economy plus function equals style." St. Catherine's master, Historian Alan Bullock, wanted someone who would not be affected by Oxford's "almost suffocating feeling of being unable to escape from the past." Jacobsen's escape could hardly be more complete...