Word: buoyant
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...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...
Potato Chips. Lysenko's lank hair is now grey, but at 62, the old plant breeder still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain...
After the war, Freeman won his law degree and went to work as an assistant to a rising young political amateur named Hubert Humphrey. As buoyant, garrulous Hubert Humphrey bounced up the political ladder from mayor of Minneapolis to U.S. Senator, dogged, serious, quiet Orville Freeman climbed with him: Freeman became Governor in 1955 and straw-bossed the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which turned out the Republicans who had controlled Minnesota for 17 years...
Murk & Manifesto. Surprisingly, this impudent performance is not as annoying as it might be. Durrell's spirits are so buoyant that they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...