Word: strause
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every out-of-towner's must-see list (along with the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building), but it slipped badly in the early 1970s. It was easily overtaken by the glitter and sharp merchandising of trendy Bloomingdale's; Korvettes, Abraham & Straus and Alexander's, which cater to the traditional Macy's budget-type customer, pulled ahead with jazzy promotions. Macy's sales limped along and Wall Street analysts believe the store actually lost money in some years. It did not share in the growth of parent R.H. Macy...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 438 pages...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
This year two books need no color to make them models of superlative craftsmanship and originality. In My Village, Sturbridge (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), Gary Bowen invents a character, True Mason, and walks him through a 19th century New England village. Bowen's style is lean and precise. But it is his and Randy Miller's brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does...
What!?! Q-World? Home of the Space Table and bastion of mediocrity? No longer. The age of stereotypes is over. Winthrop is losing its exclusive rights to the Straus Cup, Kirkland isn't the only House that pours bodies into Dillon Field House every day, and even Joe Restic frequents the Quincy dining hall in tribute to the emergence of Q-World Sports...