Word: gay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nearly every page is scattered with the confetti of French, Latin and Italian phrases, and, occasionally, the dialogue is so polished as to remain forever obscure. Still, the world she describes, if not the authentic 18th century, is nevertheless an authentic world of the imagination. Her Paris is as gay as a dream of Paris, her Egypt as eerily strange as all lands that lie below the horizon of time, and her people have a fevered life of their own-more life, in fact, than they are likely to have in the three-hour movie that will certainly be made...
There are few operas more consistently delightful than The Barber of Seville. Fashioned from Beaumarchais' sprightly comedy of aristocratic highjinks, the libretto is succinct and funny. Rossini's music fits perfectly, being gay, tuneful, and happily short-winded...
...Alex' backfield coach in the early 19303, Dodd taught the Yellow Jackets a hipper-dipper type of crowd-pleasing ball that he kept right on polishing after he took over from his ailing boss in 1945. Tech backs threw the ball around with gay abandon-forward passes, laterals, double laterals, pass-and-laterals. Everybody got a kick out of the game, especially the alumni who now count 97 regular-season victories, only 27 losses and three ties in twelve Dodd seasons...
...confidence, he is the star of the show. In the more innocuous part of Candide, Robert Rounseville acts stiffly but has a powerful and accurate singing voice. Barbara Cook as Cunegonde is an appealing actress with a good voice, and stops the show with one number, "Glitter and Be Gay...
...GAY MONARCH (378 pp.) -Virginia Cowles-Harper...