Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doglike devotion takes a forthright husbandly turn: "No, please don't. If it's not. . . mental mauling and messing about, it has to be the other kind." At a point where friends might have recommended a good psychoanalyst, Max packs the family off for a long holiday in Florence...
...kind of people who he presumably hopes will come to see his movie-the packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...
Boston's Roman Holiday...
...Here, in this ghoulish little scene, is the essential horror story of our time . . . This Roman holiday in staid old Boston proves again how thin is the veneer of our Christianity...
Music Researcher Dorothea Bourne took something of a busman's holiday. Landing from the new S.S. Independence in Naples, she was soon enjoying a magnificently costumed production of Otello at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, later, in Venice, met Composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and Conductor Angelo Ephrikian. In Florence, while sampling the music at hand, she insists that in a nightclub she discovered the "last resting place of bop." At opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production...