Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel could easily turn out to be a misnomer. If the title is accurate, it would be good news, for Author Cheever is in danger of getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled in only with...
...Davison, to whom the performance of the Requiem was dedicated, would have frowned on church performance of the Requiem. Its grief is a worldly sort too sensuous and lyrical to fulfill Davison's demand that true sacred music lead the worshipper toward the supernatural without such earthly qualities as lush thirds or pictorial arpeggios. Quite to the contrary, if someone had listened to this concert (especially the Faure) with purely religious intent, he would have had to ignore the greatest beauty and genius of the music...
...Francisco Ballet: "It's a good story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke Adam into life with their swords. Magnificently danced by Roderick Drew in jazz-flavored classical ballet movements. Adam, according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then...
...Importance of Being Oscar is a one-man evening - Actor-Playwright Micheal Mac Liammoir's account of the rise and fall, the life and letters, of Oscar Wilde. In the first half, Mac Liammoir offers a world all bons mots and boutonnieres, of the spotlighted esthete, of the lush poetry and the languid pose, of feats of personality and triumphs of playwriting. In the second half, which begins with Wilde's imprisonment, Mac Liammoir portrays the reviled man, the repentant sinner, the reproaches in De Profundis to his fellow sinner Lord Alfred Douglas, and the last salvation-seeking...
...indolent Laotian manner to create a unified nation. The Lao stuck to the lush valleys, where the living was easy, and lorded it over the darker, aboriginal inhabitants who are still known in Laos today as Kha (slaves). To the hills came a fierce assortment of immigrants: Black Thai and White Thai, Yao and Youne and Meo. Adept with the poisoned dart, the crossbow and the animal pit, the 80-odd hill tribes dislike the valley-dwelling Lao and number about half the country's 2,000,000 population...