Word: blue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purely indifferent offering. The main problem was one of casting. Tosca and Cavaradossi must be sophisticates; they are people of passionate conviction, important in the world of fashion and art. As portrayed by Lois Marshall and Thomas Hayward, the lovers seemed like the uncertain adolescents of Blue Denim. They sang well, though the round, supple tone of Miss Marshall is well known and pleasing, as is the light, lyric vocalism of Mr. Hayward. The orchestra stumbled through the score...
...Geraniums. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 16, Mitterrand left the Brasserie Lipp, favorite haunt of Parisian journalists and politicians, and headed in his blue Peugeot 403 for his apartment on the fashionable Rue Guynemer...
...thunderous ovation, Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners to Kansas Governor George Docking, who was also in the audience, even attended a post-concert party at the River Club where she danced with local millionaires and nibbled caviar snacks, an "almost blue" filet mignon and the "Delice Callas" dessert (peppermint ice cream, brandy-flavored chocolate, meringue, whipped cream, pistachio nuts...
...rusted rifles of every conceivable make, ammunition so old that only half of it would fire. Among the debris in one corner of the armory, he even found a long-forgotten coffin containing the body of the daughter of President Alexandre Petion (1808-18). But he also found old blue ceremonial uniforms in the army warehouses and soon fielded a band that gives rousing renditions of the Marines' Hymn, plus a passable version of the Haitian anthem. More important, Heinl's 40-man team taught the troops how to get from bunks to battle stations all over town...
...problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told how it is being done...