Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building stands foursquare in the open to be judged. And for all the expertise bandied about, most architecture relies basically on a massive input of common sense. A good building, like a good suit, is made of fine materials well cut and well joined. The result must cost no more than the client agreed to pay. It must fit his requirements?and at its best, the requirements of the neighborhood, the city, the culture. The buildings on the accompanying color pages point up the qualities that good building must possess...
Young executives at Boston's Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. sometimes show up for work in sport coats, occasionally even in turtlenecks. "But if they want to become a boss," says one vice president, "they had better dress like the boss does, which means white shirt, dark suit, dark shoes and socks and a conservative tie." Similar ground rules apply in the automobile industry. "I saw someone in a yellow-and-green-plaid sport coat walking through the lobby," says a General Motors Corp. executive. "He was probably a summer replacement...
...Enderby, a wheezing, farting, belching bachelor poet who writes in the lavatory of his filthy flat. Enderby is a Mad Magazine version of Leopold Bloom; he sentimentally feeds gulls and innocently offends all the local pub personnel. Suddenly offered an obscure prize for his poetry, Enderby borrows a suit from a friendly chef in return for writing a cycle of torrid love poetry to the barmaid the chef is wooing. At the prize ceremonies Enderby is courted by Vesta Bainbridge, features editor of a women's magazine and unscrupulous conversion-monger for the Catholic Church. Soon after, Vesta marries...
...prospects of the monaural LP are as bright today as the presidential ambitions of Harold Stassen. Some record companies have stopped making them, and the rest may well soon follow suit...
...Walter K. Pleuthner, 83, with legal papers ordering him to demolish the house. Local officials believe a succession of small fires have damaged the structure so much that it is "dangerous and unsafe." Pleuthner contends that the fires only "mellowed" his home's great oak beams, answers each suit with delaying tactics or countersuit. When officials threatened to bulldoze the structure last month, Pleuthner's lawyer won a temporary restraining order. Said he: "Scarsdale doesn't like it because it doesn't harmonize with the esthetic tastes here. Scarsdale is a village of conformists...