Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league also went to work on vaudeville producers who featured unshaven Jewish comics and movie producers who portrayed Jews as usurious misers. In its zeal, the league at first sought local censorship ordinances, even tried to have such works as Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice removed from school reading programs. Later the league reversed itself and declared: "The Merchant is an accepted classic of world literature. As a work of great artistic quality, it cannot, in a free society, be subject to censorship...
...like that. The six-year-olds prefer tiny jelly omelets." He sighed: "And. of course, there is always some child who will request a truffle." Stanish, whose parties can handle from 60 to 150 children and can cost anywhere from $35 to $500, often provides a dance team (who twist and then teach it to the tots) along with his repertory of 120 different omelets...
...Short. Clowns are perennials; Chicago Caterer Harry Oppenheimer, 21, doubles as one, and Los Angeles' Jingles, the Singing Clown, charges $1 per child per hour, provides games, prizes, whistles, and his own merry-go-round. Says Jingles objectively: "Jingles sings with the kiddies and he dances the twist with them. This is important." More important, according to Los Angeles Party Coordinator Gertrude Durand, is the time element. "Very young children have a limited interest span." says she. "I try to keep the parties short, provide the basics-puppets, merry-go-rounds, ponies and carts-and often rent a movie...
Oliver! Lionel Bart, 31, is not too proud to help Charles Dickens, Immortal. In "freely adapting" Oliver Twist, Britisher Bart, who wrote book, music and lyrics, has blue-penciled out the socially conscious harshness of Dickens, and mauve-penciled in the timeless hokum of Showland...
...Start Right Over Now," the lights of Atlanta's Grace Methodist Church were dimmed. The choir sang softly, and members of the 1,200-strong congregation, each bearing a tightly folded scrap of paper, began to crowd the aisles. As each worshiper reached the altar, he dropped his twist of paper into one of a dozen burning urns; some knelt for a moment in prayer before returning to their pews...