Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president: John D. Rockefeller III) had pulled together the resources of dozens of public and private agencies to plan a center for the performance and instruction of opera, music, dance and repertory theater. The President's car skirted a crowd of 12,000, pulled up behind a huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers' platform. Beneath the great tent: the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Bernstein rapped his baton and signaled the spirit of the day with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. A rousing Hail to the Chief...
...Journal (optimistically numbered "Vol. I, No. I) is mimeographed with a printed green cover, and its contributions--edited by Dan Frost '60--range over discussions in sociology, history, and economics. Ford Grant funds provided the wherewithall for production, an allotment which might curtail the flow of Beaujolais, but seems eminently worthwhile...
...Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets that spell i LOVE YOU in colorful International Code flags, mast-shaped scatter pins emblazoned with code flags reading K-U-Z-I-G-Y (International Code for PERMISSION GRANTED TO LAY ALONGSIDE...
Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, gongs, dances, and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...