Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Founded four decades ago as a "musical bridge between East and West," Takarazuka (named after its home town in Japan) presents thinly disguised Broadway and Paris turns, together with jazzed-up versions of Japanese fairy and folk tales, all held together in a sukiyaki-like mixture of muted native music and brassy show tunes. The 400 girls of the Takarazuka company (their motto: "Be pure, be right, be beautiful") sing everything from high soprano to near baritone, and the male impersonators among them pass out pinup photos by the thousands to their frenzied teen-age following...
...Cinderella, in which the chorus line appears in white top hats and tails. Instead they concentrated on a number of vaguely oriental-flavored exercises, whose paper-thin plots were bolstered with barbarically blazing sets and sumptuously encrusted costumes. Pastel-colored paper globes hung in grapelike clusters, spangled parasols twirled like colored tops, flowery kimonos fluttered beneath frozen comic masks...
...time to say Mass and perform his other duties, he would still spend time "on manual labor that should be devoted to sacred studies; he is also plunged into a materialistic environment harmful to his own spiritual life and often dangerous to his chastity. He is made to think like his fellow workers in union and social matters and becomes enmeshed in the class struggle...
...suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always be a noticeable physical difference between the combatants. Nobody could quarrel with that...
LAXATIVES. "The use of words or phrases like 'bloated,' 'gassy,' and 'logy' seems distasteful...