Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were: the Glee Club grads, the Princetonians up for the game, the dates of the boys on stage, all there to remind themselves how terrific it is to go to an Ivy League school. We may not be quite ready for the jet set, but are we ever the Golden Race...
...names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked on the Auditorium as an 18-year-old apprentice...
Clifford Odets has become a watchword for what is worst in the theatre of the '30's. Waiting for Lefty conjures up visions of a cast storming an audience with cries of "Strike!" and Golden Boy suggests the apotheosis of sentimentalism--or else a bad musical with Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks of Odets as a great dialogue writer, which he was, or as a creator of remarkably distinctive characters, which he was also. We think of him as a soapbox in possession of a typewriter...
...Symphony Orchestra played a new coronation hymn ("You are the shadow of God"), and unofficial Poet Laureate Lutfali Suratgar read a three-minute ode ("The crown and throne of the King of Kings shone over the world as the sun and the moon shine in the firmament"). Mountaineers planted golden crowns atop the country's 48 highest peaks. Throughout Iran there were 97,000 coronation parties and 630 carnivals. A million dollars worth of fireworks rocketed through the night...
...difficult to appreciate the nostalgia of the public-which included John Kennedy-for the place and the musical called Camelot. A golden blend of song and story, it celebrated the fabled, far-off landscape of the English soul, where it never rained till after sun down and where by royal decree summer lingered through September. By Broadway standards, no musical ever had a more regal lineage. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the creators of My Fair Lady, did book and lyrics, based on T. H. White's brilliant tetralogy The Once and Future King. Moss Hart directed...