Word: buttoning
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...anywhere, naturally, you have to wear shoes. This season the opera pump is eclipsed by the dressier models; cutouts, sandals, multi-fabrics, button 'n' beaus, colors (brilliant, shocking, startling, and good old reliable navy). Tennis shoes for classes, for tennis, yes, but be in step--you need bright accents on your feet to complement the severe lines of this season...
Whitney Darrow's president will be ready. He will press a button in his suit, blink his eyes once or twice, turn to his smiling predecessor and say, "Noli timere, o vir Harvardiensis, ad astra per aspera...
...course, dress at Harvard is a fairly static, conformist affair. Zoot-suits, funnel shapes, and one-button California drapes were never in order: it's always been (or at least, for as long as we can recall) the three-button jacket with sparely padded shoulders...
...example. A few weeks ago, we noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window, and we breathed a sigh of relief, still clinging to our recently threatened three-buttoned job. But when, scarcely a week ago, we noticed the self-same jacket draped--or rather, compressed--around the shoulders of a friend of ours, our anxiety was trebly renewed...
...Orwell's early school days, is a masterpiece of narrative. No one has evoked more memorably the brutality young boys can show each other, the elaborate code of honor that prevails among them. "In winter," wrote Orwell, "your nose ran continually, your fingers were too numb to button your shirt . . . and there was the daily nightmare of football -the cold, the mud, the hideous greasy