Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical parks across the U.S., tiny museum-piece schoolhouses, with belfry, potbellied stove and initial-scarred benches, set city-bred youngsters to speculating about how "cute" the one-teacher, one-room school must have been. Yet for a surprising number of children, this kind of school is neither quaint nor historical: they attend one daily. Despite the big trend toward consolidation, some 10,000 one-room schools still function in rural America...
Setting out to paint quaint, cozy, often whimsical realism hardly seems the way to win the avantgarde. Yet such is precisely the goal of a Tennessee-born artist named Charles Grooms. "I'm really oldfashioned, basically," he says, and his pursuit of everyday images has already earned him, at the age of 27, a reputation as the new Grand Pop Moses...
...government troops into the sovereign state of Alabama, whose courageous struggle for independence in the last century was so brutally crushed by your own Abe Lin-coln, and which under the brave leadership of the Wallace Lama is now engaged in a life and death struggle to preserve its quaint indigenous way of life from utter destruction at the hands of your agents, the Northern aggressors. All this to cover up your ruthless invasion of that all but universally acknowledged part of China known as Tibet; but the Johnson Administration will not be so easily tricked...
...Broadway ALL IN GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inabili ty of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. There are no clinical freaks to be found here-just blessedly real people...
...ceremonial cut the number of consistories from four to two. It also abolished the quaint little ceremony in which the cardinals opened and closed their mouths, symbolizing their duty to advise the Pope and their obligation to keep secret what they told him. Instead of personally handing the cardinals their galeros-the broad-brimmed, tasseled red hat, symbolic of their role as princes of the church, which is never worn and is placed on the cardinal's tomb at his death-the Pope merely had the hats delivered to their residences...