Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
...swank galleries on Manhattan's East 57th Street, the art season was almost over, but across the U.S. it was just beginning. Three U.S. cities were staging big spring exhibits-gay art picnics for all the folks...
Almost 500 men of '28, herding wives and children before them, registered in the Union, donned gay hats, and slapped rain-spotted backs. Eventually, most found their way to the Hasty Pudding for potables, platitudes, and plans for a full week...
...through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths more given to sambas than study. "Chatô's" proposal: Brazil must have three institutions like Groton,* which he calls "the Rolls-Royce of schools...
...Juliet concerns a show within a show in which backstage romances merge into full-stage routines. There is a workmanlike Rodgers score, with one schmalzy tune, No Other Love, and such lively show music as It's Me and Keep It Gay. There is an agreeable cast, gaily paced by George Abbott, gaily dressed by Irene Sharaff. There are some good Bob Alton dances, and Joan McCracken not only steps up the dancing but notably brightens the show. And Jo Mielziners "problem" sets are fascinatingly expert...