Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Larry. So clamber out of the tweed bag, baby. Mod can be creative. "I don't believe in this color combination bit," says Larry as he touches his wide tie, blue polka dots on a green background. "The other day I had on a plaid vest, a granny print shirt and paisley bell-bottoms. Everyone knows you don't wear plaid and paisley and granny print together. But it was groovy. I was digging the patterns...
Only a shade subtler is the Scope campaign, which opens with a man in a T shirt emoting into his mirror: "Boss, you could fire me for this, but you have bad breath. BAD BREATH!" Then, anguished minutes later, the employee is in the office and begins, shakily, "Boss," only to be interrupted, mercifully, by the boss's fragrant announcement: "Johnson, I have discovered a new mouthwash...
...Little Allergic. Next day, sportily attired in mustard slacks, matching shirt and yellow canvas shoes, Romney drove in an American Motors Rambler to Rocky's cottage for a buffet lunch. By the time the meal was over, the two Governors had achieved a consensus, so to speak, on consensus. "It was an apparent and not a real difference," Romney told reporters on the broad green lawn fronting the cottage. "Personally, I would not have chosen the word consensus.* I was just a little allergic to the previous association of the word. But I agree the Governors should reach...
...repairman's individual labor is immensely less efficient than the assembly-line labor that produces the machine. In this instance, it would clearly be wasteful not to buy a new washer. Says Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset: "The day may come when it is more expensive to launder a shirt than to buy a new one. Which is more wasteful then-to clean the shirt or throw it away...
...took to wearing unpressed suits and a soft grey shirt and, writes Thompson, "brought his arrogance and grouchiness under at least temporary control. His remarks were usually cheerful, witty, mischievously playful." Thompson concludes this phase of Frost's life with the newly successful poet preparing at 40 to return to America. Frost's ambition now was to find a farm in New England where he could "live cheap and get Yankier and Yankier." He did, and so did his work...