Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus...
German nudists address each other as Lichtfreund (friend of light), scorn normal bathing areas where clothes are worn as "textile" beaches. Broad-beamed male and female nudists delight in taking group setting-up exercises, sail, water-ski and throw cocktail parties in the buff. The nudists' chief foe is the Roman Catholic Church, which says that nude bathing beaches "are places where immorality is furthered.'' Light friends vehemently deny this charge, say that the reason for the rise in nudism is that "we feel less observed when we're naked." Elsewhere in Europe this summer, Teutonic...
...many thalers are still in circulation, but at least 320 million have been minted, and the minting is still going on-but with a difference. Under prodding from Austria, the British fortnight ago promised to stop coining thalers, thus leaving the Vienna mint as the sole source. The move delighted Austrian bankers, who sell new thalers for $1.04 apiece and make an 8? profit on each one. To the bankers' even greater delight, the Vienna mint hopes to increase its output of Fat Ladies from about 1,000,000 this year...
...tone, the rhythmic stride and the air of unfettered delight that made Hawkins an immediate success when he broke in with the old Fletcher Henderson band in 1923. A St. Joseph (Mo.) boy, Hawkins was only 19; he had been playing the sax since he was nine, had been making good money working proms and club dates from his mid-teens. ("I never played for $5 a night in my life," says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation...
...Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall and gaunt, he mounted the podium and led the orchestra into a performance of Trauminsel (Isle of Dreams). It was his 43rd full-length operetta, and it was pure Viennese delight...