Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threepenny Opera, which will open April 22, was also selected to complement the Adams House March production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, on which it was based...
...growing shelf of Johnson literature, the man almost invariably emerges as a scarcely credible, one-dimensional character, all sinner or all saint. Probably the best portrayal of Johnson the man is in a work of fiction, Novelist William Brammer's The Gay Place. In it, he appears as Governor Arthur ("Goddam") Fenstemaker of Texas, an earthy, explosive, consummately skilled politician whose credo comes across in three lines of dialogue...
Subjects who get a lift from the drug describe all colors as bright and gay-a traffic light may become an object of surpassing beauty. If the subject be comes depressed, the colors darken or bleach out. Highly colored geometric tapestries flow past the closed eyes...
...18th green at Louisiana's Oakbourne Country Club, Gay Brewer marked his ball and turned to Jack Nicklaus. "What's it worth to you," he asked, "if I miss this putt?" Nicklaus solemnly reached into his pocket, pulled out a money clip crammed with bills, and held it out to Brewer. Brewer chuckled impishly, lined up his putt-a straight-in 15-footer-and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which...
...Opera would be three times as hard to produce in the Loeb," Walter Jewell, the show's producer, commented. "Here we can concentrate on the show itself rather than on technical aspects. This is a perfect example of kids with no experience creating something big. This is light, gay, happy--not formal--opera...