Word: gratae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...André Gide pointed out long ago from personal experience, there are several varieties of homosexuals that the heterosexual world lumps together but that "feel an irrepressible loathing for one another." Today in the U.S., there are "mixed" bars where all homosexuals, male and female, are persona grata; "cuff-linky" bars that cater to the college and junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco...
...diplomat-abductors were identified as Abdel Moneim el Neklawy and Selim el Saved, both first secretaries at Rome's Egyptian embassy. Claiming diplomatic immunity, they were released by the police later that night, and, next day, the Italian government ordered them from the country as persona non grata...
Rumanian Revolt. But if the Chinese were non grata in Moscow, there was at least one Eastern European Communist capital where Peking was still welcome. In Bucharest, Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 62, went out of his way to include Mao Tse-tung in his May Day message of greeting. In the Red world, it was a significant gesture, and every Communist from Auckland to Zanzibar took note of it. For Dej is playing a double game in the Sino-Soviet conflict, one that could lead to plenty of trouble-or perhaps to a certain amount of freedom...
...Someone, a Somali I think, will shoot me in Nairobi. However hard I try to get away, death will be there." It wasn't. After keeping his appointment in Nairobi (where he claimed he had less than two shillings to his name), Okello found himself persona non grata. So he bought himself a dark blue Peugeot, packed his pistol and candy-striped cane, and set off for Uganda...
...prevailing integrationist theme made its most remarkable inroad at last week's Newport Jazz Festival. Folk is strictly music non grata at Newport. But there stood Duke Ellington singing about King and Bull Connor...