Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insane national trend of filling up the already woefully few parks and urban green spaces to save money in land costs will surely be paid for dearly in the confusion and congestion of future generations...
...another, every journalist who can manage it is entering a book in the political sweepstakes. But Columnist Joseph Alsop seems determined to buck the trend. His offering: From the Silent Earth, a report on the Bronze Age of ancient Greece...
...great sorrow, the double-breasted suit has disappeared. Sartorial sociologists blame this on the trend toward informality. "They always had to be buttoned. If you walk around in an unbuttoned double-breasted, you look like a taxi with all the doors open," explains Irwin Grossman, vice president of Manhattan's Groshire-Austin Leeds...
...when it comes to figuring out what makes a trend, the menswear men only wish they knew. It can be a President - but not necessarily. Ex-Haberdasher Harry Truman completed the apotheosis of the wild sports shirt worn outside the trousers, but otherwise excited no sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson...
...conditioner, and about 11 million families have a big TV set in the living room and portables scattered around the house. More than half of the 3,100,000 automatic washers sold last year were bought by people who already had one but wanted a spare or replacement. The trend is symbolized by the refrigerator in the garage; manufacturers report that many families store up beer and soda there, and buy a new refrigerator for the kitchen long before the old stand-by has finished its 15-year life expectancy...