Word: avant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors usually make up for the lack of performing skill by choosing off-beat plays; and this summer was no exception. The company kicked off with Goodrich & Hackett's The Great Big Doorstep, and followed it with two of Eugene Ionesco's avant-garde one-acters: The Lesson; and Jack, or the Submission. Neither of the last two is in a class with Ionesco's The Chairs; but both are intriguing if too drawn out dramatizations of his thesis that people just cannot communicate sufficiently through language. Jack was more imaginatively staged here than the New York production last year...
...final songs were the six Ariettes oubliees that Debussy composed to evocative poems of Verlaine in 1888. Though youthful works, which were radically avant-garde in their day, they proved that Debussy was already a master Impressionist. "II pleure dans mon coeur" remains one of the most exquisite gems in the whole song literature...
Among the other big-drawing displays: a pondful of gleaming new boats, an avant-garde children's playground, the Macy-furnished ranch house, rows of shining 1959 cars, and the 360° Circarama film, a leftover from the Brussels World Fair, which has been updated by Walt Disney and fitted out with a Russian sound track. On opening day, uniformed girls handed out free Pepsi-Colas from gaily painted kiosks. More than 60,000 red begonia, white chrysanthemum and blue ageratum plants splashed color through the exhibits-not out of any special patriotic fervor, but because they...
...happy. The fees that the club was able to pay for its jazz acts rose from less than $300 to more than $3,000 a week. Even after the Nogas sold their interest in the club last year to Max Weiss, secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's avant-garde Fantasy Records, nothing really changed. They did try to straighten out the chaotic books, but it was a foredoomed effort. Accurate accounting is apparently not a necessity for survival in the jazz world, where only a few clubs-Nick's in Manhattan and the Blue Note in Chicago-have...
Concurring Justices hastened to add some obiter dicta. Felix Frankfurter, "as one whose taste in art and literature hardly qualifies him for the avant-garde," doubted that the picture would have offended even "Victorian moral sensibilities." Said Justice John Marshall Harlan, who felt that Lady should not be banned, even though he also felt that the Supreme Court had moved too swiftly in striking down the New York statute: "I cannot regard this film as depicting anything more than a somewhat unusual, and rather pathetic, 'love triangle...