Word: freak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ENTERTAINMENT will range from the Old Vic and the Philadelphia Symphony to Lawrence Welk and Elvis Presley. A $2,000,000 midway, unhappily called "The Gayway." will provide thrills, rides and freak shows. And of course the fair will have its undraped girls, in a "Las Vegas-type revue" to be produced by one Gracie Hansen, an entrepreneuse who promises "a daring show with some nudity, but all in good taste." Mrs. Hansen admits, however, that her last production, in a Cascade Mountains logging town, proved "too adult for the P.T.A...
Sliced Cliché. But after all the tired titillation, freak free verse, exhausted experiment are sifted away, some gold dust and a few sizable nuggets remain. Sanford Friedman's Salamander (in New World Writing) is a sweet, sad, perceptive story of how a seven-year-old New York boy becomes a philosopher. B. H. Friedman's Whisper (in Noble Savage) is a softly sizzling portrait of the big-town big shot caught in the rat race and insisting he loves it. Joseph Kostolefsky, in the same magazine, refashions arty cliché with a lethal satire called...
...Woodward Stakes-under imposts as high as 136 lbs. (Man o' War's top freight: 138 lbs.), over distances as long as two miles, by margins as wide as eight lengths. Says Veteran Thoroughbred Trainer Howard Hoffman: "I'd have to call Kelso a freak-a wonderful freak. He doesn't look like much, but he runs hard, carries weight and takes on all comers. He can win taking the lead or coming from behind. He doesn't seem to care which-as long as he wins...
...seems to be no trick at all. Largely as a consequence of better nutrition, girls mature earlier than ever; the average age of puberty has dropped by 1½ years since 1940. The average American woman marries at 20. Once the married college girl was a bit of a freak, perhaps the wife of a war veteran back to finish his education, or perhaps even trying to keep her marriage a secret. Now the campus marriage is increasingly common; last year at the University of California, for example, 36% of the day students were married. At the end of this...
Crimson first-captain Wilfurd Throstle '64 concurred, "Loose-leaf said it more imaginatively than I could over hope to, but basically, let's face it, he's right! All us guys were pretty perturbed when we goofed and scored on that freak round out (this happened at 5:45 of the second set). Gee," he murmured, "did old Manila Folder chew...