Word: rave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estranged wife, himself and, perhaps most pertinently, with modern civilization. The theme is what Lowry himself has dubbed "the migraine of alienation." Lush as a tropical jungle, the book alternates between fierce introspection and a hallucinatory evocation of the Mexican scene. When it was published in 1947, it received rave notices from serious critics but also made the lower rungs of bestsellerdom. Recently, it was brought out in Italy by Feltrinelli, the first publisher of Doctor Zhivago...
Home in London after her eleven-day tour of Italy, Queen Elizabeth was still getting rave notices from her recent hosts. Even Rome's leftist weekly, L'Espresso, found it "almost a miracle" that she remained composed during her "inhumanly crowded sojourn." Elizabeth drew throngs everywhere: 100,000 cheered her in Naples, crowds called her to the balcony...
...practically belches from such gorging. Somatically speaking, the paintings can be eaten. Lafleur's "nutritive period" works skyrocket from 12,000 francs to 10 million. Even one of his "starvation period" paintings "radiates the equivalent of a small glass of milk." As the press and art critics rave, the public riots for its share of edible art. Lafleur is bureaucratized as a French national resource. But when the nutritive fad is played out, a Lafleur painting is about as valuable as a leftover brioche...
...assembled throng could rave, and will undoubtedly as the season progresses, about forward John Connors, who specialized in backward, over-the-shoulder layups, and center Dave Slattery, a 6 ft., 3 in. operative with a deadly eye and a knack for un-center-like dribbling...
...West Berlin's State Opera created a sensation at the Vienna Festival in Alban Berg's Lulu. Her Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin and Mathis der Maler. Minnesota-born Bass-Baritone Keith Engen, 35, one of the stars of the Munich Opera, is so idolized in Germany that he obligingly changed the spelling...