Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour bus tour of the capital, the men were treated to lunch at La Taverne, one of the city's finest French restaurants. (Among the highlights was their first taste of beer since July 17-a Chinese brew called Tsingtao.) That afternoon, they watched a four-hour pageant as the Prince's guests, and as a special bonus Sihanouk later sent them two cases of Cambodian liquor...
More realistically, evidence shows that women will never shake off their chains. Feminism has won its battles, and except for a deranged member of the Society for Cutting Up Men shooting Andy Warhol and demonstrators at the Miss America pageant burning girdles and false eyelashes, there is no neo-feminist agitation against male supremacy. Women remain as charmingly or dully subjugated or as neurotically anguished as ever. Indeed, most are well satisfied with their lot; their freedom is always increasing and no one is really sure that Y-chromosome doesn't give the male mind all sorts of innate superiority...
...Heart is a Lonely Hunter is more like a poem surrounded by a pageant. The purists will undoubtedly charge it with infidelity to the book. It's a shame more liberties weren't taken...
...latest novel, Couples. But the good folk of Ipswich either don't think so or couldn't care less. For there was John, in Pilgrim costume, at "17th Century Day," commemorating the founding of Ipswich in 1633. He read the introduction to a 30-minute pageant he wrote depicting the place as it was back when, noting that there the "Puritan flame burned brightest." Then he sat in with the Ipswich Recorder Society for a few rounds of Handel and Scarlatti. "This town has been kind to me, even indulgent," said Updike. "It's let me live...
...young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American...