Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early on election night, Dick Neuberger, trailing by 10,000 votes, agreed. Thinking himself defeated, he went to bed. Next morning Neuberger and his wife, State Representative Maurine Neuberger, paced up and down their pink kitchen, where the telephone buzzed from time to time bringing them election returns. The first delayed returns from Multnomah County (Portland) halved Cordon's lead, but Candidate Neuberger sighed gloomily. "Not enough," he said, and gathered up some grocery bills on which to tabulate votes...
...Farmer Christopher, Massachusetts' MacDonald is running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
...especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink. The wearer can cover a distance of 200 yards through mustard gas." It also advised readers that "white acces sories are very chic in wartime. They show up well in blackouts...
...pretty obvious device for converting color into coin. Furthermore, there is a musical objection to the scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot...
Admittedly, lines of some sort are unavoidable. But the waiting imposed on those who have already signed for their books need not continue. The third checkout desk in the lobby should be opened for these borrowers. They could then file past rapidly, displaying pink cards as they leave. In this way, they would not have to waste time in a line slowed by others checking out their books. Getting into the study facilities behind the theater-like lobby may be Lamont's main attraction, but getting out swiftly should at least be a second feature...