Word: showboating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestant, Catholic and Jew, as Will Herberg pointed out (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), now form a spiritual tripod on which the U.S. conception of religion rests, and, says Marty, "the old concept of a 'Protestant' America is as obsolete as the side-wheel showboat, the cigar-store Indian or the Fourth of July oration. We all think of these things as part of 'our' culture-but where do we go to find them?" Marty suggests that Protestantism is insecure because it senses itself to be a minority (although statistically it is not), while Roman Catholicism...
Many of the Saturday night dances will be given in their traditional forms again this year. Lowell has added a picnic supper with "top-quality hamburgers" to their Courtyard Dance fare; there will be a Kirkland "Mississippi Showboat" and a Dunster "Masquerade Dance." The Dunster committee has promised that "prizes will be given for the best costumes and the least-dressed girl...
When The Beggar's Opera ends its run, the new Mrs. Cassidy will have exactly two days to get down to Dallas, Texas, and begin rehearsals there for a production of Showboat. Her husband, meanwhile, will have a week of freedom before reporting for work on Kiss Me Kate in Boston. Shirley and Jack think that they may be able to get together for a while in September before Shirley goes to Hollywood, but they're not at all sure...
...looked the soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great...
...second act. For its first three-fourths, the play is simply a below-par musical revue, a series of mediocre songs and dances unhampered by any connecting thread. Indeed, Jo Mielziner's one set does remind you that this is all taking place on a rather battered Showboat, but there is no other perceptible connection with...