Word: buoyant
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...they're losing, of course, the better component of the working force, for who would risk going out to Germany or Canada unless he had some training? A semi-skilled laborer, anyway, not unskilled. So this is then proof that the economy is not quite as buoyant as they are pretending...
...number of factors are contributing to the market's advance. The persistent descent of interest rates is deflecting capital out of fixed-income investments and into stocks. The upsurge in the market itself creates a buoyant atmosphere for investing. Mildly improving corporate profits add to the sense that business is becoming better. Still, in the view of some analysts, the market has run ahead of economic reality. Henry M. Farrell, portfolio manager for the First National Bank of Columbia, S.C., contends that prices for many stocks are discounting 1972 and 1973 earnings. "The way things are going," he says...
...forced to turn choreographer; almost by accident he has thus established himself as the most promising dance creator to emerge from the Balanchine ranks in recent years. Fete Noire, based on a Shostakovitch score, is a neoclassic Russian romp set in some imaginary imperial salon. At once crisp and buoyant, it demonstrates how well Mitchell has grasped the real secret of Balanchine's genius-the mastery of the logic and geometry of bodies in motion. By contrast, Mitchell's Rhythmetron is a throbbing, stylized Afro-Latin tribal ritual set to a score for 33 percussion instruments by Brazilian...
When you focus on the room again, everyone is still prancing, hiccoughing, and laughing in a way that suggests a general catharsis. So the spirit, as the voice gathers you into a circle for the last time, is unusually buoyant. And everyone joins hands for the last time, sweaty, clammy hands now. Then they drop hands for the last time to begin in unison, in an easy sort of harmony a series of movements. Stretching up on the toes, wilting to the floor, swaying from side to side like-but this time, there are no specially good of specially pretty...
...complex of rather sober fears; of joblessness, of radical violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...