Word: uncool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reviving traditional cold-weather wisdom. Natural fabrics are in demand again; wool, cotton and silk are most comfortable because they breathe, allowing perspiration to evaporate. No one any longer laughs at "snuggies," those sturdy thigh-length undertrousers that Grandma used to wear. Fur has begun to shed its politically uncool image (the American fur industry does not use pelts from endangered species such as leopard and baby seal), because "it's an organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks...
...version of James Whitmore's one-man show Give 'Em Hell, Harry and reports the audience cheered when Harry Truman stepped right up and called Richard Nixon "a lying son-of-a-bitch." He argued on the set that All the President's Men could have used one such uncool and cathartic moment, a moment when all the emotion it so carefully suppresses is allowed to burst through. Yet that moment's absence should not mar what must be a triumphant moment for Redford. For the first time he has fully mobilized all the forces within...
...coming to Harvard? Excited? All your dreams are about to come true. Your high school buddies are jealous, and you feel a little funny about that, but Jesus are you proud of it. And that cool pride--the pride you'll come to frown upon as uncool, at least with your peers--may make you just a bit more vulnerable than you'd like to think...
...there are other items more blatantly displayed on the Coop's shelves that are uncool. They used to say that you could tell a Harvardian from his non-Crimson counterpart, because only the latter would be caught dead in a Harvard T-shirt. If you need a sweatshirt because B&G overlooked your dorm when they were turning on the heat, go buy one. Don't go out of your way to find a place that sells them without the Crimson brand across the chest; you'll be frost-bitten by the time...