Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such enterprise might easily be mistaken for coming to the picnic in overcoat and vest, especially since the Philharmonic is a beginner at a game best played in Boston, and a rather stuffy beginner at that. But the mood Kostelanetz was after was something on the order of refined amusement. The staid rows of amber seats had been removed from Philharmonic Hall and replaced by tables and chairs as closely packed as in a Paris cafe. As the orchestra played, the audience sipped champagne and gazed around the hall. To such a cheerful atmosphere, Kostelanetz merely wanted to add music...
...fondness for other people's castaway clothes, particularly if the other people had cast them away at least 30 years before. These come cheap in Manhattan's thrift shops. When she first walked into the Bon Soir, she was wearing a $4 black dress, a $2 Persian vest, and old white satin 500 shoes with large silver buckles...
...current production, John Gielgud claims only the virtue of unobtrusiveness. The point of it, he says, is to have the play "unencumbered by an elaborate reconstruction of any historical period." The cast appears mostly in "rehearsal clothes"--slacks and sweaters, suits, and in one case, a garish red vest...
...manufacturers have also had some reverses. The vest has almost vanished. The dinner jacket has supplanted tails almost completely, and what demand there still is for "white-tie" is largely supplied by the rental houses...
...handle such versatility, the faculty itself is a sort of vest-pocket university. Friedrich Hayek, the non-Keynesian economist, was a longtime regular. Hannah Arendt, a recent catch, is a famed expert on totalitarianism. Novelist Bellow is there, he says, because of his "interest in social questions. I like to keep in touch...