Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long last, the U.S. woman is joining the rest of the world. The curved curple is In, and the monobuttock is on its way to a new divisive splendor. First evidence was the recent popularity of stretch pants and tight slacks, which were obviously wasted if what they stretched or were tight over was not the real personality of the wearer. The final nudge is the new fashions. "Last year's girdle won't properly fill out this year's dress," says Executive Vice President Walter A. Schieman of Peter Pan Foundations Inc. And Formfit is feeling...
...Porter's medieval Italian dining room table has been put to use as a mammoth desk for the Dean, and Elmwood's candelabra have been fashioned into lamps for most of the house. The new dining room stands out in Napoleonic splendor. Surely, the historical societies which were so apprehensive last year are delighted with the results of Harvard's restoration...
...most unpopular point on the triangle is Brasilia, which only six years ago was nothing but wilderness and a gleam in the eye of then President Kubitschek. Now it is a city of architectural splendor and 300,000 people, most of whom would rather be somewhere else. Housing is scarce, and so is night life. About one-third of the 475 Congressmen and Senators still maintain homes in Rio, a few war ministry bureaucrats even commute daily from Rio, and the foreign ministry, still based in Rio, keeps only a handful of clerks in Brasilia...
Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means, by Edwin P. Hoyt. He could have lived in splendor on the take from just one of his spectacular swindles, but for Means the joy of a lie was in living it, so he conned the rich (mostly women) the slow, dramatic...
...beaches," he wrote with characteristic sweetness about Oran. "They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces, which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow beach...