Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michel: I am not of American origin, nor of British. I am French, Parisian as well. And, my dear Citizen of the World, I do not believe in buffoonery. Do you know the meaning of the word? It is something like what a little dog does, but not quite. France has given you privileges. That is the way France...
That was one expressive word in U.S. teen-age use last week to convey a common feeling about the reopening of school. Nothing, teen-agers thought, could be more "frip" than getting down to work in the first weeks of fall...
Baby & Buggy. While "frip" has replaced "lousy" in the South, "hairy" seems to be the coming word for it on the West Coast. In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs...
...styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school girl: "The word this year is meticulous...
Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective" show in Manhattan...