Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citation is worth waiting 70 years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...
...gay, bright-eyed officer's son Vladimir Turukhin hopes to be a designer in a brave new world powered by atomic energy and free at last of all the bad habits of capitalist society. Teresa Kleinerman wants to devote her whole life to medicine and have enough left over to study a little singing...
Vile Bodies orchestrated the gay dance of death of Mayfair's Bright Young Things between the wars. Readers were somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking...
Swift held politicians in scorn, but served two of them-the Tory Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford-so as to sway a kingdom. He despaired of mankind, but his friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal...
Receiving reporters in a gay silk print dress, Margaret Truman hedged on politics (she was "flattered" at the suggestion that she run for Vice President), took a firm stand on a personal issue: "Anybody that calls me 'Maggie' will never get a date. I hate that name...