Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it sacrificed its hoped for a victory in the Greater Boston Intercollegiate meet at Tufts, the Crimson track squad made Dartmouth's Winter Carnival a little less gay by crushing the Indian cindermen 69-40 on Saturday. After a strong showing in the G.B.I. field events on Friday night, Harvard left behind only a few runners on Saturday and placed third to Boston College...
...wrote his piano showpiece Perpetual Motion, shortly thereafter joined the rebellious "Les Six," a group of young composers (among them: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric) that left a bright mark on contemporary French music; of a heart attack; in Paris. In later years Poulenc's gay, airy theatrical music gave way to a more highly sustained and emotional style in such formidable pieces as The Dialogues of the Carmelites, a melodic opera based on the 1789 martyrdom of 16 nuns...
...Robert Dawson's long poem "Epithalamion." It's a love poem ("epithalamion" means marriage song), characterized by grace, calmson, and an unqualified technical mastery. The poem has dramatic setting--an evening in the city--and it keeps to it. Mr. Dawson also uses splashes of other poets with gay sensitivity. Echoes of Hart Crane's gulls and city are there, for example; Eliot's "Prufrock" turns...
...were developed by the chorus, with the soloists assigned more angular parts. Less lofty in style than much of what Hindemith has written recently, it is tautly constructed, as responsive to the text's moods as litmus paper to acid. It is, as Hindemith himself said, a "light, gay piece"-but the gaiety is that of a master...
...accomplished by an actor who started out as a light comedian but apparently can do darn near anything he pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation. In this picture Lemmon starts out as a gay and gloriously funny falling-down drunk; as his disease progresses he regresses with a ferocity few players could express and fewer still control; at the climax he is simply a maniacal infant screaming for his bottle...