Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swimming pool, and a basketball game of sorts, and real hot dogs, and what looks like real rain are but incidents-and not very imaginative ones-in a never really gay evening. Harold Rome's score is agreeable but commonplace; except for Comedienne Sheila Bond, the cast, though youthful, is colorless. One trouble is with the people-or with the fact that there are none. Only in an occasional phrase, or in a song called Tripping the Light Fantastic, does the show stoop to the level of mere fumbling human beings...
FOREIGN PAINTING: French Colorist Raoul Dufy (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.), for a representative selection of his bright gay-spirited land- and seascapes...
Some authors try to make each new book as different as possible from the one before. Author Ludwig Bemelmans works passionately in the opposite direction: he has grown prosperous and popular by writing the same book over & over again. It was gay and lively stuff 15 years ago when it was appearing in Story and The New Yorker; it still seems gay and lively today...
...Gay Nineties Saucers. "Who says that flying saucers were never seen before 1947?" asks Menzel. Recently he and his wife and young daughter visited the Library of Congress and found in the newspaper files a flying saucer scare more than 50 years ago. It started in California, where many flying saucers have been seen recently. "California had inversions then," says Menzel, "just as it has them today...
...Male Animal. Gay comedy, gaily revived, of a Milquetoastish professor menaced in class by a Vanzetti letter, at home by a varsity letter man (TIME...