Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piston, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, to warm applause. As played by the Boston's first-rate Violist Joseph de Pasquale, the concerto unfolded as a simple, strongly exuberant piece with clear orchestral coloration and precise balance. In its climactic third movement, there was plenty of agitation, some gay syncopation, and an enticing dialogue between the solo viola and the orchestra. All in all, another reason to be grateful that Walter Piston got off that streetcar and turned to composing...
...Coincidentally, on the eve of the gay Jewish festival of Purim, widely celebrated in the garment trade...
...that he would leave for Djakarta earlier than he had expected-but only because his wife is expecting a baby. Then he went off to a luncheon party at the Indonesian consulate in Kobe, where he led his guests in singing a ballad called When We Were Young and Gay. His press officer explained: "It's his favorite song...
...been opposed by both families; his father guessed it was mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier; now, in ultimate defeat, he blinked his myopic eyes and became sullen and silent...
...literally step by step, which is in turn the measure of his inner toughening, adjustment and growth. Of F.D.R.'s relation to politics and public affairs, there is no more than the sounds of tuning up; in his relations with his family, he seems a little too conventionally gay, rationally irritable and distantly intimate. Sunrise at Campobello is most successfully concerned with F.D.R.'s relations to himself. It thus makes possible Ralph Bellamy's extraordinarily effective portrayal, one which achieves not bits of personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words...