Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...alcoholics, told them to lie down on a surgical table. Most subjects complied, made no fuss. A week later they got the whisky with the tranquilizer chlorpromazine: some lay down on the table, promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug had not only increased the effect of alcohol but had actually boosted the amount circulating in the blood and brain, and had altered the chemical processes by which the body breaks down alcohol...
...would be your dawn of heroism, and, I tell you, it is indeed your dawn of heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero's dream, clothed in the attractive gay mantle of glory. You are heroes in truth, and despite all distortions, hypocrisies, illusions and falsehood, truth is still true in this winter...
...last January when Harold Macmillan became Britain's Prime Minister. The government left by the ailing Anthony Eden was in disarray, and almost everybody seemed to have reservations about the ability of the 63-year-old publisher with the too-elegant Edwardian manners. He was decried as "a gay amateur," "a political dilettante," "a foppish phrasemaker," or, if praised, praised with fingers crossed. The Tories, seeing their popularity drop in poll after poll, in by-election after by-election, were close to demoralization...
...brought up." he says, "to rejoice in God and life and to have a gay and festive spirit." He does not understand his more somber-minded colleagues and their preoccupation with the tragic and grotesque. "We are alive." he insists. "Why act as if we were dead...