Word: applaudable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibited, rather than the vices exposed: and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece.... In these plays almost all the characters are good: if they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic...
...hardly know whether to applaud you for your wit, groan over your unscholarly and superficial analyses, or praise you for your occasional (I say occasional) insight into the ideological conflicts and underlying bases for the widespread folk-music interest today...
...American patrol to murder two of his men. "Yes ma'am," he replies politely, and obviously anxious to please his hostesses, he strangles one (with a scarf thoughtfully provided by a woman in the audience) and shoots the other in the forehead. The sweet ladies of the garden club applaud his performance enthusiastically...
...likely that the liberals who applaud this charge, the voters who have come to see Ted Kennedy as political evil incarnate, will support him by 1970 because of a solid, liberal voting record...
...relatively uncomplicated pieces-Balanchine's Serenade and Jerome Robbins' Interplay. But it remained for the third number on the program- the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...