Word: beautician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some industry leaders themselves admit that there is little any cosmetic can actually do to help the top layer of the skin, almost twice the thickness of onionskin paper. Says one beautician: "The best cosmetic is soap and water...
...look the part. Milan fondly encouraged her, wined and dined her whenever possible. Her life took on a sybaritic pattern. In the morning she usually sang at the piano on a glassed-in terrace outside her bedroom, polishing current roles. Afternoons, she visited her dressmaker or her beautician, taking treatments worthy of a courtesan: cream, oil and electric massages and rubdowns, face packs and facials of every kind. When shopping, she added to a wardrobe that already included 25 fur coats, 40 suits, 150 pairs of shoes, 200 dresses, at least 300 hats. She never has gloves washed, just tosses...
From such a bleak beginning, Jackie Cochran became a beautician, a nurse, a good airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs...
...forty years old and widely scattered, their godfather sets out to reunite them, with an eye toward enhancing the glory, and the commercial success, of a village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window-washer...
Specialization, or what Hutchins calls "the doctrine of the ad hoc," is another plague afflicting higher education. Courses are offered in everything from how to be a beautician to how to drive an automobile, while the bases of the oldtime classical education receive less and less attention. "The process of specialization has . . . turned out to be a process of inhibition ... In the United States, we have discovered that [a specialist] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less...