Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT, Kennebunkport Playhouse, Kennebunkport, Me.; Star Playhouse, Ephrata, Pa.; Green Hills Theater, Reading, Pa.; Tappan Zee Playhouse, Nyack...
...renamed Struggle Against Revisionism Street. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Communist mass rallies, became The East Is Red-a favorite Mao slogan. Legation Street, location of most foreign embassies in Peking, was changed to Anti-Imperialist Street. The Guards also ordered a change in the traffic lights: green now means stop and red means go because red is the color of the forward-moving revolution...
...food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated as a sybaritic haven of sterilized glasses, heaped towels, ice-cube machines and coffeemakers...
...Mint Green. "Brownie," as he had been called since childhood, had plenty of vim and vigor and decided to give the place a shaking-up. He also clasped to his bosom an ex-pressagent named Hy Gardner. Gardner got a gossip column and a big voice in the upper echelons. Soon Brownie brought in a dismally square Tangle Towns puzzle contest, a mint-green third section, a weekly pocket TV magazine (editor: Gardner), and an early-bird edition that came out at 8 p.m. The puzzles boosted circulation, but the green section did nothing, the TV guide lost money...
...personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green and pleasant land. In the end, the heroine connects with the resistance-and finds it just as brutal as the regime it is resisting...