Word: turtlenecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. Now there are no outstanding challengers to bother him. Back in Paris, he will have time to relax and enjoy his $50,000 purse. His fans will find him with Cherif Hamia and the rest of les durs (the tough guys), rolling down the boulevards resplendent in the turtleneck sweater, tight, pointed shoes and busted nose that are the cachet of his trade...
Some highly successful reincarnations of the barbershop quartet have been producing a lot of lather in the pop-music business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
Continentalism is as hard to study as it is easy to incur. Its relatively new thread is often hard to single out from the longer-established strands of traditional New England Anglophilism, or impotent Cambridge bohemianism, or merely the shabby genteel. Are that tweed cap and turtleneck sweater and that pair of Colin Wilson glasses long standing affectations, with family sanction, or have they been induced by a fortnight in London? Does that hawk-shouldered young lady with the unattached hair and dangling earrings long to be at Mary Vorse's place instead of the Mandrake? Or is she dressing...
Actually, with my army experience and all, I'm pretty wise by now, and well worth listening to. The army is quite like the houses, except they call their places barracks, and the food is a little better. Nobody gets away with wearing a turtleneck sweater instead of a necktie, and the only way you can sleep through breakfast is by resting your chin in your tray. But the living quarters are roomier than in the houses, and people all speak to one another. The disadvantage is that the army chooses your "house" for you, which really isn't much...
...Ordinary Frenchman. Pierre Poujade looks like a peasant and makes the most of it. He avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne, the kitchen to the living room, and he drinks his soup from his plate. He boasts that he has no book learning. "Why should I study books? I know more already than the people who wrote them." He tells crowds: "I'm just le petit Poujade, an ordinary Frenchman like...