Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend away from the raccoon coat continues as the bulky great-coat of recent years gives way to lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. The crowning glory of the college man's hat also seems on the down grade. One style, however, the Tyrolean green alpine model with feather brush and hidden ear-muffs, is gaining popularity so quickly that one expects to hear yodels echoing from the steps of Widener...
...recent trend toward increased cooperation among Ivy League colleges, previously restricted to scholarships and sports, this week expanded into the field of journalism with the initiation of a CRIMSON program of technical assistance to underdeveloped newspapers...
Roger W. Brown, Senior Tutor of the Social Relations Department, explains this decline, the sharpest in recent College history, as part of a national trend. "Immediately following the war," Brown said, "social sciences and especially psychology were on the up-swing. Here at Harvard there was a pioneering spirit in Social Relations, as it was a new field...
...down trend cut across every major population group, but the largest defection was right where it could be expected: among farmers. Although the prices of dairy products and basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
Showgoers know Agnes de Mille as the choreographer who jimmied ballet right into the plot of Oklahoma! and started a Broadway trend; balletomanes know her as the one who has done most to bring oldtime American themes to the ballet stage (Rodeo, Fall River Legend). Last week Choreographer de Mille was off on a new tack: with her own company of 19, she set out to test a hunch that there is room for an outfit offering dance, pantomime and song in a repertory rich in American themes...