Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded the annual title of 'best dressed women' are square...
...batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
...Jackie Kennedy also snap up the "line-for-line" copies available in the U.S. Manhattan Socialite Mrs. John Converse happily admits, "I love Ohrbach copies." She also likes American designers like Bill Blass and Mainbocher. Nowadays, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Loel Guinness and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt shop on both sides of the ocean...
...only to freeze wages and prices but, ironically enough for a Labor government, to create some unemployment. Already the first layoffs from firms cutting back production have begun. The British workingman's reaction is predictable. "It's a shock this comes from a Labor government," says Senior Shop Steward John Recordon of London's Palmer Aero Products. "I can't see any blame for the worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson...
Archaic work attitudes, ingrained class divisions, the tolerance of amateurism and inefficiency, governments unable or unwilling to keep shop-the list of Britain's ills goes on and on. Britain, which once ruled the world, now commands admiration for the poignant knack of "muddling through." In the current crisis the British may, or may not, muddle through again. But simply surviving it like all the previous ones, without effecting a revision from top to bottom of Britain's approach to the business of earning its way in the world, would be a hollow victory. Better perhaps would...