Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stop and think things over, and change. Take up a pipe and drop the stuffy greys and reps. For a shocker give the soft shirt a chance--pants and tie match. Keep the coat and shoes conventional, but spice them with a carnation in the buttonhole and striped laces. No more crew cuts, no more sneakers...
...German weapons, including machine guns, grenades and knives. These elite "youths," said Zinn, were between 35 and 50 years old, all former German officers and some of them old Nazis and SS men. The U.S. bill: 50,000 marks($11,900) a month. Then Zinn sprang a real shocker. The Technical Service had prepared long lists of West German "unreliables" to be "put on ice" on Invasion Day. Only a handful were Communists; the rest were Socialists, including such prominent anti-Reds as West Germany's No. 1 Socialist Erich Ollenhauer, the mayors of Hamburg and Bremen...
...bold, bad professor, one Marcel Beck of the University of Zurich, dares question the wisdom of Swiss isolationism. The National Day Committee, a well-meaning group which organizes patriotic rallies, invited Professor Beck to speak on the 661st anniversary celebration of Swiss independence. His speech was a shocker...
This had the predictable effect. Newsmen and Congressmen began clamoring for release of the forbidden shocker. The State Department, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency all insisted that the report be classified as secret, because its contents might give aid & comfort to Soviet propaganda in the Middle East. In June, after Senator John Sparkman's Small Business Committee demanded the report's release, Harry Truman didn't even bother to reply. He had already suppressed it for what he called the good of the nation. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sparkman, now the vice-presidential nominee...
...from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story of the man who took his first bath...