Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra was the supreme U.S. orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky from 1924 to 1949. Charles Munch, who led the orchestra from 1949 until last fall, allowed its standards to slip somewhat, sparing only the French repertory as Boston's private domain. Under Erich Leinsdorf, 51, one of the Metropolitan Opera's greatest conductors, the orchestra has already regained a degree of its lost precision of ensemble, and it retains its long reputation as the orchestra richest in virtuosos...
Customs agents and Special Branch detectives charged with safeguarding the borders of the sprawling Rhodesian Federation have been run ragged lately. In the north, there is a steady traffic of white mercenaries and African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last...
...Diana Vreeland of Vogue (known to every friend and nonfriend in the trade as "Dee-ann"). Flanked by a squadron of outriders, they did not so much attend a show as occupy it. Miss White, a nonviolently well-dressed woman, with her broken wrist (the result of a slip on the ice before she left the U.S.) bound in a sling that changed daily with her outfit, got the honored spot on Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed, and putting in her first appearances as Vogue's top editor, made...
...word for Ben, it turns out, is embittered nonconformist. While he forces Gloria to strip to her red-and-blue-flowered slip, and collects kisses on demand, he begins talking the poor girl to death on the subject of the death of the individual. His mission, he proclaims, is to be a brutal predator in this world of sheep. Then Playwright Schisgal tips his plot upside down like an hourglass. Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns...
...wore toupees were once as few and far between as the strands of their own hair. To the wearer it was all a matter of secrecy and shame, and to onlookers a cause for thunderous hilarity; the next best thing to seeing a man slip on a banana peel was watching the wind lift the wig off his glittering skull. Neither disgraceful nor comic any more, toupees are big business in the U.S. today. They are worn not only by matinee idols whose afternoons are fast fading into dusk, but also by many a man who lost his comb...