Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total togetherness much more quickly than he estimated. (Huxley set the time of his soma-happy society in the 7th century A.F., or After Ford.) Institutes for Motivational Research, hidden persuaders and singing commercials make Huxley think man is being nudged closer to the dark side of the moonstruck world he once described...
...Flor de Oro Trujillo, golden flower of the Dominican dictator), glamour and oodles of connections (No. 2 was French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux), and the good life (No. 3 and No. 4: Heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton). No. s-to-be can give him none of these things, but moonstruck Rubirosa, aching to marry her "probably within one month," husked that his fiancee, fast-rising Paris Actress Odile (Fabien) Rodin, 19,* is "pretty, intelligent, gracious and good...
...crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done around 1100 B.C. to the hopping-mad, moonstruck sea gulls and cranes of Northwest Moderns Mark Tobey and Morris Graves...
When widowed Vice President Alben W. Berkley took handsome Widow Jane Hadley as his wife six years ago, two 14-year-old youngsters became moonstruck, were photographed passing up the wedding luncheon delicacies. Instead, they devoured each other with shy lamb eyes...
...Colonel Fairfax, Jerry Brown was faced with the dilemma which occurs in G. and S.--that the romantic hero tends towards insipidity compared with the comic hero, who always holds the audience's primary interest. Brown overcame this dilemma partially by playing the role for laughs in a rather moonstruck, Russel Nype manner...