Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional alumni parade, slow-paced at 60 steps to the minute so that the older men could keep up. Watching over the parade was the academy's oldest living graduate, 95-year-old Major General Henry Clay Hodges Jr., class of 1881, and it was a very gay proceeding. "Oh look," the President yelled, when he saw Mamie applauding with the crowd; the President doffed the dented grey hat and swept it gracefully across his middle, essaying a courtly bow. "Hey, Ike," came a shout from another quarter, and there stood Richard and James ("Shorty") Walsh, wizened, pixylike Irishmen...
This same cheerful camaraderie with life in all its forms, conveyed by exquisitely styled sheep and high-prancing goats, made the Etruscans outstanding animal sculptors as well. To adorn wooden chests they carved gay mermaids, as delightful to Etruscan sailors as the Sirens were terrifying to Greek oarsmen. Even their demons, carved on drinking cups, were closer to Pan than to fire...
...Gay Divorce. After the first painful moments of separation, Tito began to enjoy his state of Kremlin outlawry and his gay life as the world's most eligible political bachelor. He has been courted by the West, wooed by the East, consulted by the neutralists. The peasant's son has been wined by queens, dined by prime ministers, taken tiger-hunting by a maharaja. His uniforms have grown gaudier and bigger over the paunch, his laugh more easy. Anthony Eden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson have called on him. He has called on Queen Elizabeth, presented...
...lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound up any season for the past 20 years...
There is another reason for Dylan Thomas' soaring popularity. Not only his verse but his life fitted in with what people always secretly expect of poets. It was boisterous, dissolute, sometimes repellent, often appealing, both tragic and gay: a mixture easily labeled "romantic." As much as his work, his life-and death -contributed to the burgeoning Dylan Thomas legend...