Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown of the first week's operatic offerings was the Figaro-tender, witty, effortlessly buoyant. The spectacle of servants outwitting their masters, so inflammatory in Mozart's day, was given charm and point by Baritone Walter Berry, as a rather phlegmatic Figaro, and Soprano Lucia Popp, as his pert fiancee. Baritone Hans Helm and especially Soprano Gundula Janowitz, as the count and countess, played along with aristocratic good grace...
...call: Come on, America! We've done it before and we can do it again. We can solve our energy problem. Nothing is impossible for 220 million Americans pulling together. We went to the moon; we shall not let OPEC bring us to our knees! Oh, for a buoyant, confident leader who can make us feel invincible...
...close of the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and his wife Betty dined with Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis. As the evening ended in a glow of good feeling, Kaunda observed: "Let us hope God acts quick." Replied Thatcher, buoyant over her diplomatic successes: "I don't know about God, but the British Prime Minister will certainly act quick...
...discussions was that they were being held in a relaxed atmosphere, sometimes on the deck around the swimming pool adjoining Aspen Lodge. The President went jogging Saturday morning with some of the Governors he had invited to the retreat and his guests later reported that he was in a buoyant mood. In Washington, however, some Government officials were calling the domestic summit a watershed in the Carter presidency, a last chance to reverse the widespread impression that he is simply not competent to lead the nation. Said one Cabinet officer of the President's political advisers: "They...
...hardly buoyant these days. Carter is far from cocky. He is weakened politically, but that may be matched by Brezhnev's poor health and the doubt that it casts over Soviet leadership. It is a pattern in the exercise of power that in times of stress, these leaders respond in an elemental human fashion...