Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from the gaudily feathered headdress of West Indians to the pink and gold garb of Eastern potentates. Highlights of the evening: a fluently elegant pas de deux between Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden, and a rousing Scottish number whose stately classical movements were abruptly interrupted by the splayed gestures of a country reel...
...pressure has done nothing to repress his spirit. Cousteau can delight in eccentric garb ranging from crimson sweaters to Russian astrakhan hats. Or he can turn serious, hold an audience rapt as he talks of his vocation: "I used to dream of flying-the classic attempt to get away from the reality of earth. But since I have been diving, I have not had the dream. Diving is the most fabulous satisfaction you can experience. I am miserable out of water. It is as though you had been introduced to heaven, and then found yourself back on earth. The spirituality...
...clerical garb, though he actually spent only $2.37-for button-in-the-back collars...
Despite the gravity of the charges, Powell's flock remained true. A dozen Negro ministers, dressed in clerical garb, were among the 150 Harlem supporters who hovered outside the packed courtroom. Some prayed in the hallways. They had reason: if convicted, Congressman Powell could draw a $10,000 fine and five years in prison on each of three counts...
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...