Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little War of Private Post, by Charles Johnson Post. The Spanish-American War now seems quaint as a mustache cup, but the author, who made the charge up San Juan Hill, writes movingly about both heroism and blundering...
Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
...hindsight, it was a quaint, old-fashioned war, and Author Post puts it distinctively and persuasively into print in this graceful memoir. Post, who died in 1956 at the age of 83, was a writer-illustrator (Harper's, Cosmopolitan) with a lifelong appetite for adventure. He ran mule trains over the Andes, witnessed insurrections in Cuba and Venezuela, and honeymooned in the Mexican jungles. But nostalgia's finest hour remained for him the charge up San Juan Hill...
...numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky: "We live in a white society. Did you ever see black snow?" Another addict springs upstage smelling a fix. "Who said snow?" From time to time, a jazz combo breaks into sound, underscores the crying paralysis of the junkies' willing suspension...