Word: buoyantly
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...goin' around" (square dancing), it is hard to believe that anything so bouncy could have been rehearsed, let alone laid out in advance. The performance benefits enormously from the authority of Betty Allen's Monisha and Willard White's Ned, not to mention Schuller's buoyant conducting. But it is Carmen Balthrop as Treemonisha who is easily the hit of the evening. Winner of the 1975 Metropolitan Opera auditions, she still moves too cautiously on stage, but her lyric soprano voice has an appealing woodwind glow and she uses it with authority...
...buttons and say "Have a happy day." Perhaps an opinion poll would show that for most Americans, the vintage years may now seem-in the benign middle distance of memory-to have been at the turn of the '60s; Then hope in the direction of events seemed more buoyant and less under challenge than now. If one thinks only of civic well-being and its later decline, that period does indeed seem the best of times...
...walks the earth. After his loss to Richard Nixon in the presidential election of 1968, and then his defeat by George McGovern in the primaries of 1972, he seemed extinct. But within the past few weeks, the 64-year-old Minnesotan has risen from the political dead, looking more buoyant than ever. "There's no doubt about it," says Presidential Candidate Morris Udall, "Hubert has the bug again." Adds a top staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "The Humphrey talk is everywhere now. You hear it not only from state party people but from elected officials. You hear...
...Book of Daniel, his most recent work, is about the son of a couple like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed when he was a child, who is trying to live and grow with it. So what better for Doctorow than the era of ragtime--the most hopeful and buoyant, robust and adventurous time in American history, with Teddy Roosevelt president, the muscles of American imperialism first flexing, the First World War not yet fought...
Fading Dream. Those buoyant days are now long gone. Literally and symbolically, the carnations have wilted. The wall slogans have grown strident. A revolution that began by freeing Portugal from a dictatorship of the far right is rapidly evolving into a dictatorship of the far left. In Portugal, the dream that the April revolution would lead to a democratic and pluralistic society is fast fading, and the nation's 8 million people have only sum hope of seeing a centrist or even moderately socialist civilian government. As a mechanic in the rural town of Benedita recently...