Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throng of 30,000: "Tomorrow you will be a state once more, as you were when that palace was inhabited." Last week, having voted an overwhelming (79%) yes for De Gaulle's constitution, the Malagasy, as the inhabitants of Madagascar are known, took the general at his word. In Tananarive cannons boomed 123 times to proclaim that Madagascar had become the first French territory to opt for independence within the French community. "We are no longer a colony," cried Prime Minister Philibert Tsiranana. "We are a free nation, and we will have a national anthem and a national flag...
Gerryflappers. For a seven-year period, inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop...
This was no garden-variety variety show, for Fred Astaire is a professional perfectionist. He and his troupe sweated through seven weeks of rehearsal. Every step was planned; every word was carefully timed. And the end result was the essence of relaxation. Titian-haired young (23) Barrie Chase, Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing...
Newsman, playwright, novelist and Hollywood script mechanic, Ben (The Front Page) Hecht, 63, has always been a fast man with the spoken word. He is so fast, in fact, that ever since he took over a TV weeknight interview show on Manhattan's WABC this fall, his guests have been hopelessly outclassed in the fight for mike time. Mixing it up with experts in varied fields ranging from erotica to execution by hanging, Hecht has been calculatedly outrageous and often funny. Last week he turned on Hollywood, bit the hands that used to feed...
...College is no more." Student groups, clubs and even fraternities are on the decline; campus traditions seem "collegiate" to the new student, "and this is no longer a word of praise." Students are enormously concerned with "knowing themselves." Joe Knowledge wants to be an individual, but "not at the expense of rejection" by the group. He is tolerant, "perhaps too much so, feeling that everyone is entitled to his opinion and even that one opinion is probably as valid as another." He is convinced that what he lives in is not the best of all possible worlds...