Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never felt the urge to write a letter to TIME until I read Max J.K. Clark's letter in your Nov. 8 issue. It is a masterpiece. As long as we have Max J.K. Clarks, things will be all right with these United States . . . His slice of Americana [is] superlative...
...John Hay contains a diversified, functional collection, distributed more or less evenly among the main scholastic departments. In the John Carter Brown Library is housed a fine and widespread selection of Americana, ranging across the years from the reports of early explorers to contemporary comments and fiction. Although mainly a showcase, the Annmary Brown Memorial Library boasts one of the largest collections of incunabula (books published between 1474 and 1500) in the country...
...explained this, the TIME editor became interested in the event as a bit of expatriate Americana and thought it might make a sport story for his magazine. He asked me to mail New York full background on the upcoming game between our club and the Marine Corps team, and after the game cable New York the score and the highlights...
...daring event because 1) the company was too broke to have costumes onade or scenery painted and had to go on with the girls wearing rehearsal tights and street sweaters and the men in dungarees; and 2) dance Americana had been done to death by Agnes de Mille (Rodeo), Martha Graham (Appalachian Spring), Eugene Loring (Billy the Kid), etc. Nevertheless, the new ballet survived handsomely. While Kay's orchestration produced some remarkable grunts and twangs, Balanchine's dancers were on their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square...
Died. Struthers Burt, 71, Baltimore-born novelist (Along These Streets), lecturer and loving chronicler of Americana; after long illness; in Jackson...