Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater cashier confided her secret passion for the married manager, Abby counseled: "Find another job. It's not worth being the tail-end of a double feature." A bachelor confided that he knew a sweet, demure girl who would make a wonderful wife, and another girl, "uninhibited, gay." who "comes up to my room." "How," he asked, "shall I discourage this girl?" Quipped Abby: "Which girl?" When a California husband complained that his wife, though "smoochable, affectionate and responsive" before marriage, had "cooled to a considerable degree" since they married and moved into a $40,000 home, Abby suggested...
...carry on a conversation with my father. Everything has to be just right or he won't talk. But he was so happy when he was getting ready to run for President that he was bubbling. He could talk about anything. He was relaxed and gay." Knowland never did announce his candidacy, but he kept hinting strongly that Ike should reveal his intentions or throw open the lists. After Ike's announcement Knowland gave up without a struggle...
...scientific search for the "naked truth." Having lived ascetically before marriage, he lived monogamously thereafter. Schnitzler discovered what he called "fictional truth," had a series of well-publicized affairs with glamorous actresses, and feverishly wrote about a character named Anatol (a thinly disguised self-portrait) who was a gay yet morbid epicure, a dandy with a death wish who thought he had to die to be truly free. Through the turmoil of world war and revolution, Schnitzler wrote play after play (notably Der Reigen or La Ronde) in which the characters were driven by unconscious impulses and riven by unconscious...
...come to understand how their activities have generated an emotional involvement with each other, with their girls and with their town. A baby is born, a husband may starts being faithful, a brother leaves town, a friend may sell a play he has written, but they are all still gay. One supposes they have learned to accept only the necessary responsibilities...
...Seventh Army from Nürnberg prison, now lives in Portugal, and at 88 has recently written his autobiography. Once again, as the Germans withdrew in 1944, conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came...