Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizing upon the sycamore about, Harvard and Radcliffe students took up the battle for Memorial Drive in their own way this spring. Nearly a thousand of them paraded down to the riverside, and, in a gay, cheerful mood, blocked traffic for more than an hour by sitting and standing in the roadway. MDC police, in a move that many felt tended to further excite the students, used dogs to break up the demonstration...
...done about the New York World's Fair. It had been previewed, opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took two of his daughters, aged three and five, and stayed for more than...
...Sunday night on the steps of Moors Hall to a bored though politely appreciative audience. Not until the Harvard Glee Club sang three lively numbers was there any sign of group spirit and real enjoyment. Spring of the year, the Yard, and assembled students create the opportunity for a gay and happy affair. When will the weeping dirges go back into the dark interiors of Memorial Hall and lighter, more appropriate concerts happen in the Yard? Peter Bergh, G.S.D...
...look chic, Jeanne," said Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of France's Prime Minister, to the milkmaid at the Pompidous' country place. Jeanne was indeed a fetching sight: gold sandals, gay striped frock in the latest mode, gleaming pearl fingertips. "Merci, madame," replied Jeanne. Then she explained how a farmer's daughter so far from Paris could keep up so surely with style changes: "I read Elle...
...machine turns on its master and beats him into an abstract blob. Husband No. 3 is Robert Mitchum. Already wealthy, he liquidates his assets and goes native down on the farm, only to meet disaster trying to milk a bull. Next comes Gene Kelly ("Our life was like a gay 1930s musical") who hoofs his way to fame, fortune and a grim finale...