Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atlanta's J. P. Allen knew exactly what she wanted: "Casual clothes with a gay feeling...
...Maryknoll sisters* know how to drive jeeps (and repair them), how to administer hypodermics and do major surgery, how to teach Christian doctrine-and how to be gay. When they return from the missions to the mother house on the Hudson, they are received with laughter and merry chatter. And on the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, Oct. 15, they celebrate by adding to their far from ascetic meals a special ice-cream soda...
...President's own mind, one close observer said to Robinson that it was "indolent, superficial, gay, deeply interested in the trivial-yet forced to deal with subjects and problems beyond its comprehension...
...knack is to be able to listen. Explains Arlene Francis: "Newcomers on a panel are always too tense to listen well, and sometimes will ask questions that have already been answered." Also, she and her cohorts know from sad experience that if the first contestant is not interesting or gay or entertaining, the show generally does not get off the ground: "Once you get started well, the mood is easy to sustain, but after a bad beginning, you have to fight to recapture your audience...
...trucks waiting back of the stage on Seventh Avenue, ready to take them to the warehouse (there is not enough room at the Met to store all the scenery). Choristers and dancers pour out from the wings to take their places in the Kermesse set for Scene 2. Gay carnival lanterns, already lighted, are strung across the stage. More than 170 people are moving about in seeming confusion...