Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh's fashionable Hotel William Penn ballroom one night last week, the city's 88-piece symphony orchestra, one of the best in the U.S., became for a little while a gay and lilting dance band. Waltzing to Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods, and applauding from the $100 boxes were civic and business leaders of Pittsburgh and their wives. The occasion was the TIME of Your LIFE Ball...
...when he had a florin in his pocket, Mozart managed to be gay. Author Davenport describes how, in 1787, Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, went walking in Prague with the famed, tottering great-lover Casanova, to ask his advice on the character of Don Giovanni...
...pair of ham vaudevillians with a wobbly mind-reading act. They also find themselves in a wobbly situation, performing publicly in Communist Prague the day Jan Masaryk dies, and snappishly ordered to perform privately. But perhaps it should first be said that the Sebastians are played, in gay holiday style, by the Lunts. Otherwise, their being ordered by a Communist general to read the minds of his supper guests and their getting nastily involved in political intrigue might create an impression of something grim and arouse hopes of something gripping. As it is, The Great Sebastians is not the least...
Author Hoagland does not deal with the gay and colorful spectacle that can be observed by the dazzled ticketholders. His hero is a young alcoholic who has hit the end of the trail, takes a job helping to feed and look after the "cats"-the lions, tigers and leopards. From the first he is called "Fiddler," because it has been so long since he had the price of a haircut. Down-and-outer that he is, he still has enough fundamental decency in him to be shocked by the human derelicts who do most of the work of the circus...
...work of Miro is gay and childlike. In a few broad strokes he paints a head that looks like it comes from a 5th grade drawing board. His naivite and simplicity extend even to his use of color, which rarely deviates from the grade school palette of primary tones. Yet both his lyric feeling for color and innocent flow of form take on masterful surety through discipline and technique...