Word: fluttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minor mishaps aside the Inter-Harvard Paper Airplane Grand Prix is shaping into a major event. The Quincy House dining room will be a-flutter next Wednesday and Thursday evenings with the varied creations of paper pilots...
Feminine Mind. Everything that Wilson ever did or said is explained against this matrix. In a letter to his first wife, Wilson referred to "the flutter and restlessness" of his spirits. By using the word "flutter," Wilson betrayed a quality "so feminine in its connotations that one should hesitate to employ it to describe a man." When Wilson ascribed to Premier Clemenceau "a kind of feminine mind," Freud-Bullitt call this "clearly an attempt to persuade himself that his own behavior was not feminine by transferring his own attitude to Clemenceau...
...George Etherege, Restoration fop and mover, tossed off a play called The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. The play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore...
...players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique program) breezes as Sir Foplin Flutter, looking like the Cowardly Lion, bantering in a voice that plummets and soars like Cyril Ritchard's. And with all clowning, he fools us into listening to every line he says. Mrs. Pitzele, as Mrs. Loveit, rustles about giving a brilliant performance as a woman wronged. Miss Cole does justice, with...
...miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...