Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...creation of a black students' cultural center, more courses in African Studies, and an increased enrollment of blacks in the University's graduate schools-was that of the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American Studies." (The wording of this specific recommendation is important to note. By a prior agreement between the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and the Faculty Committee, the document was purposely ambiguous about what form-whether departmental or interdisciplinary-Afro-American Studies at Harvard was to assume in order to make its passage before the Faculty smoother. But the Ad Hoc Committee...
...entries revealed that he had never left the Atlantic. The logs, moreover, contained almost unintelligible passages-25,000 words in all-and documented an eerie religious revelation experienced by Crowhurst in the closing weeks of his voyage. There was also what appeared to be a three-page suicide note...
Anyone who thought that this treatment might flatter him into flattery got a rude shock. He enlarged the Paris bureau staff and expanded his domain to include the Italian and Spanish collections. He sent his reporters to nightclubs, theaters, chic restaurants and chichi resorts to note not only what jet-setters were wearing but what they were doing while wearing it. A letter to his father explained his aims: "WWD must be alive in this alive business, WWD must be controversial in this controversial business, WWD must be smart and snobby in this smart and snobbish business." In late...
...Oscar de La Renta, Adolfo, Bill Blass (though he was snubbed for a time), Geoffrey Beene and Yves St. Laurent. Adds Miss Klein: "If St. Laurent showed barrels with two holes cut out, I guarantee that Women's Wear would brand it the coming look. It would also note that the stays were made of teak, the nails were of the purest brass and the holes were structurally...
...month's opening of the Givenchy Boutique at Bergdorf Goodman's in Manhattan, four front-row seats were reserved for WWD. They remained empty until five minutes before the showing ended. Then a peasant-skirted, elaborately coifed young girl skittered in, occupied one of the four seats, took a note or two, and left. A few sketches of the boutique ran in "Eye" the next day without any comment...