Obie (1956); Peace SIgn (1968)

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OBIE

I was going through the VILLAGE VOICE looking for the origin of "SoHo" when I realized that I hadn't done "Obie."

OED's "Obie" (revised March 2004) is pathetic.

(OED)
Obie, n.
U.S. Theatre.
[< OB, initialism < OFF-BROADWAY a. + -Y6, after EMMY n.]

    Any of several annual awards for (work on) off-Broadway theatre productions.

  1967 National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 20/1 Last year several ‘Obies’, the prize theater awards normally reserved for the stalwarts of Off-Broadway, were given to OOB [sc. off-off-Broadway] veterans, among them actor Kevin O'Connor and playwright Sam Shepard. 1970 Time 12 Jan. 37 Meanwhile he was acting (six Broadway shows, 25 off-Broadway), collecting two Obies for off-Broadway performances, [etc.]. 1995 R. BERGAN Dustin Hoffman 49 British playwright John Arden..accepted the Obie on Henry Livings's behalf. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 82/2 Obie award-winning actor/playwright Deb Margolin busts out a play on a sexy theme.


13 June 1956, VILLAGE VOICE, pg. 1, cols. 3-5:
_Recognition for Off-Broadway_

_Voice "Obie" Awards Monday;_
_Shelly Winters to be MC_
(Col.4--ed.)
Shelly Winters, star of Broadway's "A Hatful of Rain," will be the master of cermonies at the first annual Village Voice Off-Broadway ("Obies") Awards, which are to be given out at a cermony attended by many prominent state personalities, Monday afternoon at 3 at the Limelight Coffee House at Seventh Avenue South.

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PEACE SIGN

14 March 1968, VILLAGE VOICE, pg. 1, col. 1:
_Life in Laurel Canyon_

_New Babylon: Uptight,_
_Waiting for Summer_
(...)
Outafuckinsight.
(...)(Col.3--ed.)
They greet each other with two fingers raised in a parody of Churchill's "V," a sign which can also mean: peace, love, freedom, high, and most important, (Pg. 10--ed.) solidarity.