Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gay Purree. A full-length, somewhat overanimated cattoon about a pretty French pussy named Mewsette who falls in with a sinister allee cat but is rescued by a hair-trigger mouser...
...Taste of Honey. The hit play by Shelagh Delaney, Britain's angry young ma'am, has been made into the year's best British movie: a grim-gay, witty-gritty tale about a mill-town miss (Rita Tushingham) who grows up the hard...
...orchestra, recapturing his old, uninhibited enthusiasm for color and excitement, rekindling the fire of Evtushenko's poem. The second movement is based on "Humor," a poem that makes the point that tyrants cannot imprison laughter, and the music - perfectly in the spirit of things - becomes impish, light and gay. The third movement, on a poem about a lonely young girl, is softly lyrical. The fourth movement, on Evtushenko's "Fears" (about the panicky Stalinist days), begins with an eerie trombone solo and builds to a chilling orchestral climax that suggests a pack of howling wolves...
GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY - John Buchan - Penguin Books (85? each...
...schoolboy hero of Buchan's The Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...