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[mark.pearl]

"If we let the recreation activities under State auspices take on too much of the color of la-de-dah, such as some of the bright young men at Washington seem to have in mind, we could easily be criticized in the face of so serious a situation."

[pugachevV]

Who knows what it means? It is lousy English, written in some kind of slang known only to the writer and 3 of his friends at the newspaper.