Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime coach at La Scala, was a typical example of verismo (an operatic movement comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play by Chekhov, the opera had to do with a )': drunken bum masquerading as an admiral at a wedding party. Exposed when he fails to identify a snatch of Morse code, the -phony admiral exits, announcing with sad dignity: "If I were really a nobleman, I would challenge you all to a duel." The Admiral was studded with the kind of lush melody...
Bullock-Befriending Bard. Bull bums differ considerably from ski bums, tennis bums or beach bums. For one thing, they are only spectators. For another, they are invariably well heeled and can afford the proper clothes, hotels and restaurants as well as the sports cars to make all-night dashes of up to 700 miles from one corrida to the next. The most conspicuous bull bum in Spain last week was U.S. Bachelor Kenneth H. Vanderford, 51, who has seen 94 fights this season and whips from city to city in a red Karmann Ghia...
...Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year than anyone else except Vanderford...
...offers her a walk in church besides. Never mind he's twice her age. Never mind poor Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie), the old bag he's been married to for 20 years. And so on and on till Archie, having passed a number of bum checks, is about to be hauled off to the choky. "Oh, well," he smirks, "I'm sure to meet some people I know...
Some papers simply thought that Jack Kennedy was getting a bum religious rap. Wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Senator Kennedy seems to us to have demonstrated admirable independence on this issue, since he has voted at least twice contrary to what we believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion...