Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, there are the traditional pops concerts, with Arthur Fielder and is small symphony playing a wide variety of selections from music to Muzak. As you might judge from his theatre program appearances, Fiedler sanctions the quaint custom of purveying beer among the higher priced seats. Harvard night at the Pops, May 10, is, of course, without peer as an adventure into the realm of familiar music. Unfortunately, Pops also holds B.U. and Northeastern nights, and attendance at these affairs is somewhat less comforting, unless you prefer their songs...
Investigations into the speed of one steed as opposed to another take place daily expecting Sunday at Suffolk Downs in Revere. While Suffolk may lack the quaint touts of Jamaica and the flamingoes at Hialeah, it nevertheless holds eight races a day at purses which assure at least that the entrants will be horses. If the sun is out and the luck is with you, an afternoon at Suffolk can be exceedingly pleasant; or course, it might rain, you might lose. C'est tout pour le sport...
...want to picnic there are the woods and the beaches, now empty and secluded, waiting for the summer crowds. Cape Cod it only one of the many places where the out-of-season visitor has the advantage of seeing the quaint, historic areas in their simple, real states...
...flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style and that of Mr. Goldstein; the girl spends a great deal of time emphasizing that her first husband was one of "the greatest housepainters that ever lived." This goes on for five pages and is not very funny...
Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...