Word: genteelisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muriel never forgot that. It taught her that mundane reality need never interfere with pleasure, provided one had excitement and enthusiasm. For a long time, however, mundane reality did not interfere with Muriel at all. Though her father had his ups & downs, his children were brought up in genteel New England comfort, and in 1909, when Muriel was 22, she married wealthy Paul Draper, brother of Monologuist Ruth Draper. The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied...
...genteel Cape Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready...
...into possession of a taxi with West-sector markings and plates, which would attract no attention anywhere in free Berlin. Shortly after the fake pounce on the "cigarette racketeer," the taxi recrossed into the U.S. sector and stopped on the Gerichtstrasse, a quiet, linden-shaded street in a shabbily genteel neighborhood. The hour was still early. Punctually at 7:20, Dr. Walter Linse, 48, economic expert and No. 2 man of the Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, emerged from No. 12 Gerichtstrasse, on his way to work, and started briskly toward the El station, six blocks away...
...Kober & Joshua Logan; music & lyrics by Harold Rome) is a big musical blow-up of Having Wonderful Time, Arthur Kober's tender 1937 look at life in an adult Jewish summer camp. In Wish You Were Here, not only a group of fun-clutching, romance-seeking, would-be genteel New York vacationers have come to the Catskills; Broadway itself has joined the party. The suitcases are loaded down with Main Stem gimmicks and tricks, but the Joshua Logan touch has killed off the Kober ability to be touching...
...winner was "The Three Figures," ground by Henk Lurks, son of the 1947 winner. Judges said his tempo was "prima," that he had "the arm of a metronome and the soul of an artist." Most terrible of the experts' judgments on some of the losers: "Too genteel...