Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Episcopal Church, and Rolls Royce Phantom II town cars. No one gets in without proper credentials. But in The Beautiful Life those with proper credentials are leaving for more lively high times. For Dexter Knight, a homosexual society columnist and staunch defender of permanence, Old Society is the true, classic currency, or to switch metaphors, the official yard-stick by which to measure (and discard) every new wildness...
...takes a woman to no one. The frightened namby-pamby man who attempted the first sub rosa translation of Miss Trepan's classic was far too squeamish. He glossed over obscenities and quailed before realities...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann break into still another diverting ditty, such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...
WALKING HAPPY is the musical version of H. G. Brighouse's near-classic, Hobson's Choice, introducing British Musicomedian Norman Wisdom to Broadway audiences, and a most entertaining acquaintance he is. While the score is pleasantly forgettable, Danny Daniels' choreography is fresh and memorable...
Fall built up an extraordinary store of knowledge and a remarkable string of sources on seven working trips to Viet Nam, including a personal interview with Ho Chi Minh on the subject of the war. From his experiences he turned out not only Street Without Joy, a military classic, but his definitive Two Viet Nams and an account of the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place (TIME, Feb. 10). Two months ago, Fall made a return trip to South Viet Nam on a Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study of the psychology and tactics...