Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This tomfoolery is touched up by a pretty pink & blue set, elaborate costumes, and a fresh young company that is trained within an inch of its last high C. Every gesture is rehearsed until it is the performer's second nature. Goldovsky even makes his singers practice with their backs to him so that they will be able to concentrate on their roles without having to keep their eyes trained on his baton. There are eleven singers on the tour, and all of them know more than one of the opera's seven roles, and switch around frequently...
...from the provinces have also displayed an alarming taste for pink, yellow and patterned shirts which may force the old guard to follow the new maxim: that no style-conscious man should wear a white shirt before the sun sets. In addition to the color change, veteran haberdashers in the square also predict a switch away from the tab and round collar. The merchants recall the previous short visits of these styles, pointing out that they have never lasted more than a season. Their current demise is tearfully anticipated and already provided for by the major shirt manufacturers...
...beliefs are not harmless political ones but it is part of a red conspiracy now being broken up by the patriotic Americans of our nation who have opened the eyes of all of us who up to about 2 years ago were blind as bats. Its red trash. Remember Pink Felix Frankfurter came from Harvard as did many exposed reds. Of the red cell of which the Crimson is an important part is still there but not for long...
...Houston is remarkably free of Communist influences . . . which, from all indications, just do not exist in the city." Schoolteachers have uncomplainingly taken non-Communist oaths; no Houstonians have taken refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee; Houston has neither Red-tinged bookshops nor locally published pink magazines. Nevertheless, said the Post, a "miasmic fear of Communism . . . has permeated Houston." In whispering campaigns, patriotic clergymen, educators and schoolteachers have been denounced as Reds, and meeting halls have been closed to visiting speakers on the ground that they were too "controversial...
...Brownie" for $1. Photography became a major U.S. fad. "Detective cameras" were disguised as ladies' handbags, muffs, briefcases. President Grover Cleveland delightedly used his Kodak all day long on a fishing trip, was dismayed to learn in the evening that he should have wound the film. The Pink Lady, a 1911 musical, had a song...