Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole scene of week-before pandemonium would have pleased Nikita Khrushchev as much as a red carpet. He had made it clear to the State Department that he really did not want to see any more of the U.S. landscape than he could avoid (he ducked a visit to TVA and Ike's old home at Abilene, Kans.). Quite obviously, he wanted a lot of places to talk and a lot of people to listen to him. From all the week-before signs, that is just what most of the curious and relaxed U.S. wanted...
...some two dozen newsmen on the spot in Laos last week, the assignment was a new lesson in frustration. As unprepared for the visitors as it was for Communist invaders, the tiny, remote and primitive Asian kingdom scarcely knew what to do with either. In Samneua province, scene of some of the fiercest skirmishing, a native cable-office employee stopped reporters on the street to inquire: "What should I do with this?" It was a cable handed him a week earlier by CBS Correspondent Peter Kalischer. The surest way to get anything resembling an accurate story was to make...
Almost anybody watching that scene could hear the trumpets...
...Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach, Bartok and "Bird" (Cool Saxophonist Charlie Parker). Bongo drums pounded out broken rhythms from early afternoon to early morning. Folk singers plunked guitars. Far-out paintings dripped from the walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood...
...scene is a sun-drenched Aegean island. The central character is a blonde, green-eyed girl, found as a baby by a drink-fuddled Greek fisherman and grown into a woman who has the local boys dreaming. By most fictional standards, this should be the cutoff point, the end of any sensible man's interest in a novel called The Mermaid Madonna. No one should make that mistake. Author Stratis Myrivilis is probably the finest of living Greek writers. The Mermaid Madonna is the first of his books to come to the U.S., and even with its liberal dash...