Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Visitor. All but a handful of Hanoi's 6,000 French merchants pulled out rather than try to do business with the Communists (see BUSINESS). Signs on shutters read: "Closed indefinitely" or "Store for Rent." Boards covered windows of the once-gay cafés fronting on the picturesque little lake in the city center, at whose tables generations of Foreign Legionnaires had drunk and sung and bragged. A few French technicians stayed behind to show the Reds how to run the utilities, and a score or so of European priests and sisters remained...
Neutrons with Goldfish. There was much to appreciate. Fermi emerges from the book as alte'rnately serious and gay, abstracted but practical. He is modest about major accomplishments (his dis coveries in physics), vain about minor ones (his physical endurance in mountain climbing). His wife plainly worships him, but laughs at him just enough to keep him human. She tells how one of his crucial experiments on slow neutrons was carried on in a fountain among unsuspecting gold fish. She giggles gently at his troubles with unruly shirtfronts. She pokes friendly fun at his brilliant friends (who called Fermi...
...Poor Pig. The once white gravel of Hoppegarten was grey and unkempt. In place of the old gay flags were monotonous red banners. Instead of champagne, there was weak beer; instead of flower girls, old women hawking Communist "reconstruction lottery" tickets. The wives of Communist functionaries walked up and down munching garlic sandwiches...
...Friend (book, music & lyrics by Sandy Wilson) may very well prove the surprise hit on Broadway that it was in London. A gay, witty spoof of musicomedy during the '20s, it manages to hold up all evening by lacing its burlesque 'with nostalgia. It also avoids dangerous pitfalls by sticking to the musicals of the '20s and not going after the mores...
...their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee"), rescued Katherine and saw her safely married to the knight. But soon John, too, was panting after her. Eventually, she presented John with four bouncing bastards, who were legitimized by King and Pope...