Word: disporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York opening of Graham Greene's The Living Room provided some interesting insights into the status of American culture, 1954. [It] gave the New York critics an opportunity to disport their innocence of Christian knowledge or culture. Sin? Suffering? Salvation? What, most of them asked, is all the fuss about? From reviews of The Living Room . . . one gained the impression of a culture not merely secularized but somehow de-intellectualized, a culture stripped of even passing acquaintance with the fundamental concerns which had made it great...
...there is little, and that little will not bear too close scrutiny. Supporting players abound; they must be there, since a game of such ingenuity demands many pieces that can be moved. If the picture seems to degenerate at times to farce, are there not always buffoons ready to disport themselves at the feet of the great? Guinness' performance is the thing to be seen, to be admired, but to be copied only by one who, as St. James cautions, can maintain his cool grasp when rough weather threatens the passage across the strait...
...nowhere in sight. Fishing scenes and pictures drawn from the myths of Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today's "Bikini" style of undress...