Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro and learned during the civil rights marches, is the technique of the elaborate lie, the phony story that is aimed at gulling the listener and shaming him without his knowing it. The Gross-Out -or "garbage mouth"-is a blunter weapon. A group of young people in a club dominated by adults will suddenly begin chanting four-letter words, louder and filthier all the time, until they have completely disrupted the scene...
Among the menagerie of men's organizations, the Elks, Eagles and Moose may have the edge in membership, but when it comes to elegance, manners and good breeding, none can outclass the Metropolitan Opera Club. Nicknamed "The Penguins," because its members wear white tie and tails, the club is the last vestige of the courtly pomp and pageantry that once attended grand opera. Last week members sipped champagne and dined beneath crystal chandeliers in their sumptuous clubroom in the new Met, then adjourned to their two tiers of box seats to hear Die Meistersinger. It is a weekly ritual...
...begin with, this season the club, for the first time in its history, accepted women members-all seven of whom are officers of various Met organizations...
...club today includes 286 doctors, lawyers, businessmen and journalists. U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger Blough is a leading Penguin, so is Investment Banker Robert Lehman, Novelist Paul Horgan, Poet Robert Lowell and opera-loving ex-Boxer Gene Tunney. One opera buff recently tried in vain to buy his way into the club with a $25,000 "gift," but membership is by invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller...
Pagliacci for Papinta. It is a far cry from the raucous early days of the organization, the only reminder of which is the club's emblem: a naked girl slapping a tambourine. Back in 1893, the Vaudeville Club, as it was then known, leased a room in the old Met. It was common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo...