Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome to the Queen . . . sounded as if it had been written by a jaundiced remittance man who had spent his money from home on an inglorious lost weekend and was suffering . . . Sydney's welcome was admittedly noisy and uninhibited, but the spirit of the welcome was a gay and happy greeting . . . The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh may have found our welcome tiring but not tiresome, as you pointedly suggest. Doubtless, there were far too many official functions and politicians and too much heat, but we are not quite the unmannered, uncouth colonials your article implies . . . Your presidential...
...undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that has made her husband famous: "[Publishers' wives] have an excellent sense of humor ... All lords of the press take themselves very seriously, so [we] have taken the lines of least resistance and are gay . . . Most newspapermen think that they form public opinion. This is somewhat true . . . [but] perhaps these little-known wives have more power than is generally known. Is not the female of the species stronger and more deadly than the male? . . . Before the last [G.O.P.] presidential nomination, [Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman...
...liked to call themselves, lived high, wide & handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen. Donald went on to join the navy, served...
...years to an Izumo priestess, O-Kuni, who is said to have developed the Kabuki theater from ceremonial shrine dances. At first, most of O-Kuni's female players were young courtesans, and as time went on, their costumes, gyrations and behavior developed an air of such gay abandon that "many people were led astray," say Japanese authorities. In 1629, women were forbidden to take part in the Kabuki theaters, and male actors have played all the female roles ever since...
Also notable: an alternately brusque and limpid Sonata for Piano Four Hands by Harold Shapero, a crisp woodwind Quartet in C by Arthur Berger, both of Brandeis University; a series of gay brevities called Music for a Farce by Author-Composer Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles. All were recorded under the com posers' personal supervision, a sometimes questionable practice that here results in some good performances...