Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until this winter, Yale's ice hockey program provided few wins to cheer about...
...impression of rock 'n' roll. Instead, it will probably put off her fans and cause undue mirth among audience members who know the difference between Paul Williams and Phil Spector. If Streisand and Peters condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps, to having Kate Smith conquer Woodstock...
SPEEDBOAT by Renata Adler. This sequence of polished vignettes ticks off a range of contemporary neuroses, especially those plaguing people in their 30s-the generation that was too young to cheer the System and too old to blow...
...name-dropping needlepoint should go on, Angell combed the year's headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year lay good Karma...
Broadway's cup of holiday cheer brims over with the arrival of Sly Fox. Based on Ben Jonson's Volpone, this wickedly farcical encounter between knaves and fools hides the tongue of moral satire in the cheek of roguery...