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Thursday, December 14. 1937
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Happenings' turned on year
By Ruth Rchrre and John Hill
A year of wonder, of confusion,
of extremes, of contrasts, or ironies
was 1937—the year of the absurd,
the ludicrous, the ridiculous.
The mini-skirt's gone as high as it can go without completely disappearing.
The "happenings" of 1967 make one wonder how we got started up the down staircase and where it's taking us. Observe:
LBJ rejected an excellent portrait of himself as the "ugliest thing" he ever saw. He became a grandfather to a youngster whose "Republicrat" father called him an "elephant," and he married off his daughter to a Vieinander-bound Marine captain instead of the undrafted George Hamilton.
The birth and death of hippie-dom was heralded, and for a while Haight-Ashbury meant love. Inaugurated, it seems, by Lady Bird's beautificative obsession, flower power appears to be a permanent thing. Eubble-gum companies are now offering flower-printed paper dresses by mail order.
And how could a skinny 17-
year-old girl from England weighing
90 pounds and measuring 31-
22-32 make $120 an hour modeling
for the same fashion magazines which advertise bosom-building aids?
And paper was in, along with plastic and Reynolds wrap. You can now order a floor-length paper wedding dress for $1.50 or a tin-foil mini-dress for slightly more.
It became as difficult this year to separate the men from the girls as it was to tell the actors from the politicians. As men's hair gets longer and girls' figures become more Twiggy-ish, who knows where the problems will end?
A matronly Shirley Temple, with the longest skirt of the year, danced her way back into the public eye for a few brief shining moments. And Dicksen thinks he can sing while LBJ's best buddy. Posters of Reagan in a cowboy suit are selling well, but does that mean the honorable governor can ride on into the White House?
Bobby Kennedy became a father for the tenth time and Ethel still plays touch football before breakfast.
Bad - mouth Norman Mailer wrote another novel and, for lack of anything better, titled it "Why Are We in Vietnam?"
the hula-hoop returned, but this time with a ball bearing inside that caused a "zoooh-zoo" when the hoop went around. It
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The hippies added a whole series of new expositions to American slang. The "straight" world was encouraged to "tune in, turn on, and drop out," "go where it's at," "do your own thing," and "find your bag."
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"BAREFOOT IN THE PARK"
Psychedelic posters heralded the entire psychedelic era and brought with it some of the most establishment-shocking cruzes yet. It was a year for the "don't-touch-me" skin as bodies were painted in psychedelic swirls of color.
was called, cleverly enough, the "shoop-shoop hula hoop."
Designer Rudi Gernreich, who came up with the topless in 1964, came up with the near bottomless this year in skirts that reach unprecedented heights.
Frank Sinatra was married, saw his daughter achieve fame, had his front teeth knocked out and was separated from his young wife—all in one year.
"Kiss Me Stupid"
"Toys In The Attic"
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Many old favorites staged comebacks. W. C. Fields, who in the thirties said, "A man who loves whiskey and hates kids can't be all bad," was revived in something similar to the preceding Bogart-cult.
Marshall McLuhan had brain surgery after nearly everyone eager devoured his highly controversial and largely unsupported statements.
A comic irony marked the year.
Wendy Vanderbilt's favorite evening dress this year cost $26. Black became fashionable again in haute couture and, among others, Black Power was the going thing.
ful dead” came cut with a song entitled “The Cream Puff War.”
The No.1 song in Detroit during this summer's riots was "Light My Fire" by the Doors and a singing group called "The Grate-
The Beatles grew long hair, put on granny glasses, took lessons on the sitar from Ravi Shankar, then released an album called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
The Arab-Israeli war gave way to a series of jokes, such as the new Arab tanks with back-up lights or the zillion-dollar movie being made of the entire war called the "Shortest Day."
And then there was the huge scandal when in the midst of the Arab-Israeli crisis, Egyptian Omar Sharif kissed Jewess Barbra Streisand during the filming of the movie version of "Funny Girl."
Among other extremes, young girls starved themselves trying to look like Twiggy while Cass of the Mammas and the Papas capitalized on her balloonish charm.
And it seems as though girls can't decide whether they want to look like little girls with ringlets. Mary Jane shoes and white stockings or super-zombies with silver - painted, rhinestone - lined eyes and the smasher-flasher fashions of psychedelia.
The KU School of Fine Arts department of occupational therapy will sponsor a candlelight pinning ceremony today at 4:30 p.m. for all graduating seniors, in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
And to add to all these problems, Billie Joe McAllister threw something off the Tallahatchie bridge and what it was we'll never know . . .
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This is a miniskirt. See him look. Miniskirts were big this year, but also very short. See him look.
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