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...million to the city's budget, will feature a child-staff ratio of 20 to 1, police and civilian patrols assigned to observe children at pickup and delivery points, free lunches for the needy and special T shirts, issued two to a child, displaying the wearer's name, group number and location. But as far as Atlantans are concerned, the program need only live up to its name: Safe Summer...
...play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
...habit acquired in childhood, the preppy look betrays a pitiable lack of self-confidence. Faith in a designer's name is a poor substitute for belief in one's force of character. An alligator shirt or a madras skirt is the equivalent of a sandwich sign advertising the wearer's shallowness and insecurity. It doesn't take a firm grasp of existential dialectics to see the intimate link between L.L. Bean and Nothingness. Preppy clothes cloak an inner void...
...WORST "fashion statement' is the plaid skirt, which asserts the wearer's class superiority and gender inferiority. Preppie culture has always been patriarchal. Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen...
Nevelson is past 80, without seeming so. One of the results of having a public mask is that its wearer seems to age more slowly, and no persona in the field of American culture is more instantly recognizable than hers. The armature of bone is a little more visible through the gaunt face when the makeup is off; the immense clumps of false eyelashes, glued double or treble to her lids, seem rather darker against the skin; the expression is slightly more imperious. Otherwise there is little apparent change...