Word: arcadia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar look, a return to the big, brash scene of the 1930s marathon dance halls, and on opening night some 2,000 invited guests pushed through the door of the Broadway and 53rd Street site known to their parents as the Riviera Terrace and, before that, the Arcadia Ballroom...
...glance at the footnotes in any critical edition will show you that almost every character in the play recalls a dozen others. Prospero, you learn, springs from a long line of irascible magicians. And Ferdinand, it appears, could have stepped out of Sidney's Arcadia. But even if you have dutifully read the appropriate criticism, unraveled the separate strands of Renaissance thought, gotten up the puns, you still won't resonate to everything in the play--or at least, not the first time--simply because you aren't Elizabethan...
...Arcadia, Calif...
Wistful Appeal. Appearing six times a week, Ainsworth's column is as old-fashioned as handset type, but Angelenos who spend their days in the clatter and clutter of megalopolis find wistful appeal in a report that the town of Arcadia "has sounded taps for the last chicken farm within its limits," or that in La Puenta a "gargantuan battle raged over the bougainvillaea, the rose and the iris," candidates for the town's official flower (the hibiscus, a dark horse...
...listing the Houses into which they would like to transfer, students praised Quincy's food, Adams' student body, Dunster's relaxed atmosphere and Kirkland's library. Someone from Kirkland (who was eating interhouse at Eliot the night of the poll) said he would like to switch "To Eliot! To Arcadia...