Word: idyl
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...song like Sunday in the Park is a musical idyl to the garment workers' one day off, where lovers hold hands, mothers stroll with their tots and old people bask on sunny benches. The park has to be Central Park, since Pins and Needles is very New Yorky in tone and allusion. Now people still do those things in Central Park, but its current "social significance" is that it is a place one enters at the risk of being mugged or mangled by young thugs armed with baseball bats...
...Snowdon cooled, Roddy began making ever more frequent visits to Kensington Palace, Margaret's London home. Later the princess and her new companion made a series of unchaperoned holiday visits, without her two children, to the languid Caribbean isle of Mustique. Last month, on the fourth such idyl, the couple were photographed together for the first time upon arriving. On Mustique, Roddy was stricken with a bleeding ulcer and rushed to a hospital in nearby Barbados. Margaret hovered anxiously at his bedside. When Llewellyn returned home, he committed the ultimate indiscretion-in royal circles -of talking directly to newsmen...
...idyl could not last. Father was called to a grimy industrial parish in Birmingham; their mother contracted influenza and died. But soon there was a new Mrs. Knox, an elegant lady from a landed family who encouraged the boys' brilliance: Ronnie was reading Virgil at the age of six. It was she who decreed the boarding schools they later attended: Eton for Dilly and Ronnie, Rugby for Eddie and Wilfred. Dilly went on to Cambridge, where Lytton Strachey fell in love with him (the compliment was not returned). The others went up to Oxford...
Hinsdale! Village of my childhood, village of my father, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents; village physically an idyl, socially a snakepit of ostentation and hypocrisy. Place from which I and my seven cousins and all our friends fled as soon as we were able; where once my father's friend won a golden Cadillac at an American Legion Fourth of July carnival and moved to a better part of town to keep up with his car. To see a page devoted to Hinsdale in TIME...
Slipping Puttees. Even after the German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues. His unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...