Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cable. In this case its opening was disastrous. The sea was comparatively calm, but the Liberty Bell 7 was not built for seaworthiness with its hatch open. It wobbled, took in a surge of water and began to sink. Astronaut Grissom swam through the tepid water in his buoyant, silvery space suit, taking in great gulps of sea water dyed bright green to mark his landing. Though his remarks from the capsule at first led observers to believe that he had released the new-style hatch, Grissom later reported that he only meant to indicate his intention to leave through...
...Jove smitten Orlando by Donald Harron. A Critic should be wary of the work "perfect"; but, at the performance I attended, Harron had nary a flaw, and no other word will suffice. the second reason is the attractive young lady named Carrie Nye. As Celia, she is an unflaggingly buoyant and zestful confidante to her mistress Rosalind, and her words fall...
Died. Grace George, 81, buoyant and versatile comedienne from 1894 to 1951, who starred in the U.S. premiere of Shaw's Major Barbara, long managed the Playhouse repertory theater owned by her late producer husband, William A. Brady; in Manhattan...
...play gains by the switch also, emerging a livelier theater piece. But it seems just a theater piece more than ever, lacking real substance, and chiefly good for what is buoyant and boisterous about it, though it now has a more flaring sense of worldliness and wiles. But its playful side eats into its prayerful side, leaving Becket half snuffed out. If clear-spoken, Arthur Kennedy-who has not yet worked into the part-seems much too sober and colorless. With this second try at Henry, it becomes Henry II's show...
...taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the United States. When Kennedy and Khrushchev finally meet-wow!" Other British newsmen were not far behind. AMERICA GOES TO IT, headlined the London Daily Mail, feeling buoyant even after Kennedy's sobersided State of the Union message; KENNEDY'S CALL PUTS A ZING IN THE AIR. The hardheaded Economist, which had been cool to Kennedy before his election, warmed up in a hurry: "This remarkable young man has shown that he has a very precise...