Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle?and Paris?had arranged a hero's welcome. There were two dazzling escorts: first, 50 epauleted motorcycle police, then the plumed, sword-bearing cavalry of the Garde R�publicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd?including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than...
...Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni at go-cart races in Amman, and both are fond of fast cars, planes and dancing. "Toni," said a friend, "is not very anything. She's a simple, gay girl who will cha-cha-cha with him when the day's state cares are over...
...lessons. In Manhattan, the Astaire Studios and Arthur Murray's were offering instruction up to the Ph.D. level, including such variations as the Under Arm Step, the Indian Hop, and the Kennedy Stomp. But even the experts still seemed somewhat confused. "The Pachanga," Arthur Murray pronounced sagely, "is gay and fun and sexless." Clearly, Murray had been watching the Palladium's handkerchiefs, not its skirts...
...served briefly in Hamburg, then was sent to Cambridge University to study Russian. When the Korean war came along, Blake was a British vice-consul in Seoul. Fellow diplomats remember him as convivial, gay, and with a delight in mimicry and dressing up in fancy clothes at costume parties. Blake was grabbed with the other foreigners when the Communists moved in. The North Koreans shipped him off to a detention camp for three years. There, according to Blake's signed statement, he decided that Communism was the better system and deserved to triumph...
Bunche's speech was the "61 George W. Gay Lecture on Medical Ethics...