Word: pantalooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin-Columbine story to music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. The ballet's major character innovations were a bop-goggled Pantaloon and a Beat Generation Harlequin, wearing dark glasses and T-shirt instead of the traditional mask and clown's costume...
...Pantaloon, by Manhattan's Robert Ward, 39, assistant to the president of Juilliard School of Music. The plot adapted from He Who Gets Slapped by Russian Symbolist Leonid Andreyev, concerns a disturbed fellow who joins a circus as a clown for deep-seated reasons of his own. Composer Ward's music resembles Mascagni's, with thick textures sweeping strings and sweet harmonies and thus Pantaloon has the makings of a successful theater piece. Unfortunately, the drama does not need, or benefit from, the addition of music...
...Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "lean and slipper'd pantaloon," "second childishness...
...Stockton, Calif., Amos Alonzo Stagg, football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...