Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different ways (surprised, sultry, sincere, brisk, cordial) to say "Hi, there, I'm Beverly Boyer and I'm a housewife . . ." Her winsome incompetence melts the heart of the Happy Soap king, who signs her to an $80,000 contract as his new Happy Girl...
...arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle Creek for a couple of hours of trout fishing in crystalline, pine-shaded streams, Aspen fosters one of the great classic ideals: Mens sana in corpore sano...
...York Idea into a good, if not distinguished, show. Displaying the combination of youthful exuberance and careful polish that the community has come to expect of Loeb main stage productions, they exploit all possible comic situations, and, except for the last scene, keep the play moving at a pleasantly brisk pace...
...Brisk Pace. The students now on campus are attending free of charge, except for their transportation. The school is totally desegregated; 30 students and one faculty member are Negroes. And the pace is brisk: with 144 hours of classroom instruction devoted to a major study area, each student in eight weeks will do the equivalent of a year's work in one subject. In addition, on three afternoons a week, the student attends two-hour classes in a subsidiary field of interest. Twice a week, there are two-hour seminar sessions on the great ideas, and every evening there...
...look scared, and get shot in large numbers. They will rise up spontaneously and fight without organization. The struggle is so makeshift that indignant residents often ask the street-fighters to take their battles elsewhere. Only the occasional reappearance of the same characters and places gives continuity to a brisk sequence of skirmishes and personal episodes...