Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAR ME, THE SKY IS FALLING, Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass...
...vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like to duplicate the providential medley of sea, sun and sky, the combination of cultural and recreational advantages, the chance to seize opportunity in a mobile and open society...
...Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme, tossed aloft by Kipnis like fireworks into the night sky...
...from Limoges, found that she could get by on $10 a day for food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated as a sybaritic haven of sterilized glasses, heaped towels, ice-cube machines and coffeemakers...
...railroad station, and they exchange names in embarrassed mumbles. Back home, Pina shyly displays a tacky, bricabracky cottage and the inevitable pets: a dopey turtle that scrapes tediously around the living room, a hoarse parrot that mindlessly advises visitors to "take a blue crayon and color the sky." Then she lays a few cards on the table: she works in a feed store, owns her house outright, has 200,000 lire in the bank. Adolfo follows suit: he works in a bookstore and is dead broke...