Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other performances were only slightly less galvanizing. Leland Moss played the queer brother with restraint, wisely letting the text, not phony mannerisms, establish that the characer was a homosexual. An outlandish swish would have been out of balance with the other performances, all on the quiet side, but Moss might have been a bit more peevish and shrill in his woman-hating moments. Kenneth McBain gave a controlled and droll performance as Mr. Sloane, not perhaps as sinister as he should be, but always the master of his accent and his deadpan. The four actors were acting well together...
...Story of F this gaily flecked moth who enchants the night with her musk (and by this I refer to the curious Miss Trepan) has indeed spread a queer and elusive scent. I am reminded of the Dutchman who when asked why he ploughed his canal boat up and down the same straight canal all his life, replied, "Because it is there." The Story of F is also there and a such must be dealt with...
Many of Dr. Laing's discharged patients may still seem a bit queer by society's standards, but that does not bother him as long as they can live with others and live with themselves...
Durrell (rhymes with squirrel) is as fascinated by queer animals as his brother Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) is by queer people. In previous books, he has sought them out in such odd corners as backwoods Uruguay and Sierra Leone. This time he journeys to the "attic of the world"-Australia-where, owing to the early destruction of the land bridge to Asia, the island continent became an asylum for the primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies...
...form of an enormous skeletal death god, hangs in front of the proscenium with blackened doll babies in its eye sockets, a Superman shield on its chest, barbed-wire guts and a six-foot bomb in place of genitalia. An American colonel is satirized as being "anti-Communist, anti-queer, anti-drink, anti-cigarettes." At the end of the first act, the entire cast appears onstage wearing paper bags over their heads. Whimpering, they stumble over the footlights and into the auditorium, pressing members of the audience to lead them out through the doors. The high point of the evening...