Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barred from that fashion of minds, he went on people retreat wholly into themselves or into a makeshift substitute like the frenetic sensuality of the plastic hippie or the cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped down jargon- "I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I'm up right" -thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saving 'I've got to split the scene?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find...
Conservative romanticism has been with us for a while-an example is any form of hero-worship, the idea that the best government is that which in an orderly fashion gives strength to the best governor...
...library was built in 1942. "This was the time," Philip Hofer, curator of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week "when period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists-Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch. Abbott. and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
...happily wholesome way, with pleated skirts. Loden coats, and the bulky cardigans that all American teenagery is wearing. If they approach the tastefulness of the peach style at times (without ever really achieving it), it is perhaps because peachy dress serves as an epitome of fashion in many public high schools...
...Economists at least know that they do not know these things. Often what they regard as known facts turn out to be little more than guesses. "Most of the leading indicators [the economic statistics that are supposed to foreshadow general business trends] tend to be reported in a preliminary fashion and later revised on the basis of wider sampling," notes Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "And the revisions can be extreme." Chairman