Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to the playwright Seneca that with every passing year the women of Rome were becoming more and more vain, their earrings and other jewelry more and more costly. "Probably," said Seneca, "these mad fools of women believe their husbands would not be sufficiently tormented were they not to wear two or three chunks of the hereditary patrimony hanging from each ear." The women doubtless deserved the scolding, but their excess of vanity has proved a boon for posterity. For the past few months, thousands of Italians have been delighting in an exhibition of 1,000 Italian gold and silver...
...Grace's operations, Latin America has produced a steadily shrinking share (39% last year) of the company's revenues. But Grace still has 23,487 employees (only 70 of them Americans) south of the Rio Grande, and West Coast Latin Americans still use Grace-made sugar, wear clothing made from Grace textiles, and fly on planes of Panagra Airways (jointly owned with Pan American). By taking an active role in the community life-but not the politics-of the nations where it operates, Grace has largely overcome the stigma of "Yankee imperialism" and is so little concerned about...
...parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this much Japanese merchandise, Seibu's buyers had to organize a Japanese children's clothing industry almost from scratch (Japanese children wear school uniforms) and to persuade furniture makers to raise Japan's small, low-slung dining tables to coffee-table height...
...fashion writer is more alert or more knowledgeable than the New York Herald Tribune's petite, saucy Eugenia Sheppard. Herself a taste setter by virtue of that which she chooses to ignore, Fashion Editor Sheppard delights in telling her readers as much about the people who wear good clothes as about those who design them. Last week she told of her attempts to scout out the details of the wardrobe that Jacqueline Kennedy had assembled for her trip to Asia...
Most beatniks despise money, work, the "creeping meatballism" of life in an affluent society. They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere. Most of them adore Negroes, junkies, jazzmen and Zen. The more extreme profess to smoke pot, eat peyote, sniff heroin, practice perversion. They are, in short, bohemians; the squalor of their lives is reflected in their verse...