Word: flaxen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NORMA FLAXEN New York City...
...pair develops a quick sense of mission-to unite Britain. Novelist Treece supplies Artos with two Guineveres to Malory's one (but uses the Welsh, Gwenhwyfar). The first Gwenhwyfar is a flaxen haired homebody, his half sister as well as mother of his child. The second is a kind of dusky call girl from Byzantium, a Gwenhwyfar from home. Artos makes her amorous acquaintance in a shivery session atop one of the ancient slabs at Stonehenge. He takes her to wife, but inevitably the day comes when the Count of Britain must off to the wars to fight...
English studies are generally fairly adult in dealing with religion, which is practically a dirty word in squeamish Hollywood. Too often protectors of American faith are protrayed as grinning flaxen-haired Catholic priests, who just love baseball, or late, great, Senate chaplains, who equally love their Georgia peaches. Evidently, director Charles Frend has a healthy respect for accuracy when he gives us the inside line on the Church of England...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, the stage was set for one of the year's most interesting musical evenings. The program booklets pictured the famous, flaxen froth of hair and the powerful profile of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The text of the work to be performed was taken from low and lofty verses, written by 13th century wandering scholars, vagabond poets and runaway monks, collected under the title, Carmina Burana.* The music was by Carl Orff, considered by Germans to be their most important living composer. U.S. conductors also consider him important: they scheduled no less than...
Sylvia Russell's complexion was pale olive and her eyes were limpid hazelgreen, but her hair was her crowning glory. It was what British Guiana called "Good Hair": it came flaxen straight from her immigrant cockney father and gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white...