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This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to the most influential ideas, places, products and people in the luxury business right now. Some may prove to be ephemeral, but great taste???like great tastemakers?endures. I owe personal thanks to the Ferragamo family for educating me on this very topic all those many years...
Perhaps the best hope in dealing with the erotic explosion is that the crassest, most commercial panderers will be curbed by law; beyond this, in legitimate arts and entertainment, a public sense of taste???and humor?will act as the best censor and restore some balance. Gresham's law does not necessarily apply to literature, theater or cinema. The bad drives out the good only temporarily. The point has been made briefly: anything can be shown. Now perhaps the time has come to remember that not everything has to be shown...
...anomaly of transvestism consists in the desire for cross-dressing. . . . Transvestism is a sexo-esthetic inversion of pure artistic imitation. . . . It occurs mostly in persons endowed with a highly developed artistic taste???TRANSVESTISM?Bernard S. Talmey...
...differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste???that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week...
Senator Caraway (Democrat): "He disclosed that he was almost as lacking in a knowledge of the rules of the Senate and Constitution of the United States as he was lacking in good taste???almost but not quite...