Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Stevenson took his stand amid the pageant and said: "The text of my lecture for tonight is 'Bread and Circuses.'" He harked back to the way the declining Roman emperors had taken Rome's mind off its troubles with gladiators and spectacles; he was disturbed, he said, that the Republicans might be trying to fob off Eisenhower upon "a docile, complacent, carefree people all happily chanting 'Peace, Prosperity and Progress-ain't it wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation...
...beneath blue skies, benign and contented amid the pageant of the colorings of fall. Aspens turning gold flecked the dense green forests and bleak grey sides of the Rockies; maples turning orange and red spread a magic fire across the dour woods of Minnesota; dahlias glowed purple, pink and coral beside the dark-flowering plums in the gardens of Longview, Wash. By night, the pageant continued amid a blaze of lights of county fairs where Ferris wheels turned and hot dogs sizzled and barkers exhorted...
...goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity of a third-rate burlesque skit is Eric (In Search of Theater) Bentley, 40, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and a leading snob-about-the-theater who argues that there must be theaters for the cultured few, so as to save the "intelligent" drama...
Miss America Pageant (Sat. 10:30 p.m., ABC). The annual beauty show...
...find the prettiest girl in a nation whose succulent peaches and sour lemons are often wrapped alike in the veils and Mother Hubbards of Islamic modesty is no easy matter. But the founders of Pakistan's Beauty Pageant Association, whose mission was to find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct...