Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eccentricities, is essentially an English gentleman acting to preserve a moral way of life." From Dickens' unfinished teaser, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to the 20th century whimsy of Dorothy L. Sayers, crime was cleaned up until it became an intellectual puzzle, as safe for the amusement of high-chokered ladies as it was satisfying to the fantasies of high-angled gentlemen...
...books, is openly proud of the fact that Chandler told him he would make a great Marlowe. What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show is not quite so certain. On the picture tube his man lives a little too high, operates with a little too much fash. The original would have looked at the posh bachelor apartment, the white convertible, the sharp wardrobe, and bet the lonely fin in his pocket that this guy was on the take from some wrongos...
...open season on culture in Manhattan used to begin with the first stroke of a Metropolitan Opera baton. But last week, with the Met season still a fortnight away, the town was jumping with cultural high jinks to satisfy almost any taste. Among the early season successes...
...Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled a sense of joy in the audience. At a party...
Carol Stubblefield, 24, wife of an Idaho beet farmer, knew she was going to have twins, but not until they were born a month prematurely in late June, did she know that they were joined ("Siamese"). The high-powered surgical squad that prepared to separate Jeanett Kim from Denett Lin Stubblefield at the University of Oregon Hospitals in Portland knew that it would be an immensely difficult task, but not until the operation was far advanced did they know how difficult...