Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farewell. The travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes last week went to a gay party at the headquarters of the Polish mission in Berlin. Hughes cabled...
...gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
Readers have complained that A Handful of Dust is not as gay as Waugh's earlier novels. It is, in fact, the terrifying crater of the abyss in which Waugh exists. Waugh is a conservative. In his case, this implies an intense sensitivity to the beauty of past forms, an organic response to the moral order that produced them. Waugh is a lover of tradition and hierarchy. In a world which denies hierarchy in the name of equality and tradition in the name of progress, Waugh is a lonely and an angry man. The modern world revolts...