Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marc Blitzstein is an earnest, nice-looking, pink-principled native of Philadelphia who was once a wonder-child at the piano, later studied composition under Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schonberg. More than three years ago, Composer Blitzstein's opera about a steel strike, The Cradle Will Rock, was given a bleak but exciting Manhattan production, with the composer pounding a piano for lack of orchestral accompaniment. Last Sunday night, in Manhattan's Mecca Auditorium, another bleak Blitzstein opera had its opening, with the composer at the piano. No For An Answer, originally conceived as a $30,000 production...
...then, through a hole in that pink shroud, there twinkled incongruously a permanent, genuine star-the old-fashioned kind that has always been there. . . . These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known...
...party was informal but not rowdy. The young guests sat on the floor between dances in the East Room, sipped pink lemonade, ice water and a mild sauterne punch that would not have harmed a milk-barfly. The President, after sitting in the receiving line with Miss Morgenthau, went upstairs early. But Mrs. Roosevelt remained, tirelessly danced every one of the waltzes played by Sidney's Orchestra...
Enigma in the Pink House. Roberto Ortiz, who may be the caudillo of his country if his health lets him, was on the point of accomplishing a revolutionary ambition when illness struck him down...
...honest elections, for they were used to winning by such practices as quarantining entire districts, placing voting booths in trucks which stopped only for Conservative voters, incapacitating opposition pollwatchers by sneaking laxatives into their food. But once settled in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House, which is pink), President Ortiz brought down the wrath of his Conservative supporters by taking his platform seriously. Honest elections might have perpetuated the Radicals in power if he had not had to leave the Pink House in ill health...