Word: roebuckish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Man hattan's Morningside Heights area. They are the "Diors and Schiaparellis of intellectual fashion design," in Elliott's phrase, and include Eric Bentley, Jacques Barzun, Lionel and Diana Trilling. "What they think today," says he, "you're apt to find yourself, in a Sears, Roebuckish way, sort of thinking tomorrow." Documenting the We group's insulation from reality, Elliott notes a complaint by Mary McCarthy that when a visiting French existentialist asked to be taken to a typical American restaurant, neither Mary nor any of her friends could think of a single...
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