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...since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They spent $736,000 (all privately donated) to refurbish the family living quarters of the mansion, which had become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears expensively elegant designer clothes ("American thoroughbred," Women's Wear Daily calls her look...
...lessons, they signal for the supervisor's attention by raising either an eight-inch American flag or a small blue and white Christian flag at their desks. Each day they recite pledges of allegiance to both flags, and to the Bible. They all wear an eye-catching school uniform of red, white and blue; for men (including the school's principal), blue pants, red shirts and flag-studded blue neckties; for women, plaid jumpers or blue skirts and vests with white blouses. Irvington's rules not only bar cheating, swearing and drugs, but also "rock or country...
...Singer, only to lose the film role-and a place in movie history -to Al Jolson. He went on to produce a string of Hollywood movie musicals before hitting his stride as a master of ceremonies and fund raiser. A superpatriot who liked to wear a ribbon-bedecked U.S.O. "uniform" of his own devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from the shade...
...activity that occupied the time of students then was only uniform in its variety. One member of the class claims his friends involved in jazz numbered at least 90 per cent of the marijuana-smokers at Harvard--that's about 15 or 20 people, he says. Many students were serious academics, working diligently with a possible eye towards a future of university life or government service. The Crimson and other publications were the training ground for future journalists. Jack Rosenthal '56, now an editor for the New York Times, describes such achievements as a particular source of pride...
Plaid skirts pose a special problem because most men can hardly fail to recognize their uniform ugliness. They are part of the backlash to feminism that brings us Brooke Shields' close encounters with Calvin Klein. Thus does plaid-clad "Bunny" Birnbach promote her success with The Preppy Handbook by claiming to "get a wonderful frisson from dressing preppy while cherishing liberal attitudes and social conciousness...