Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After bearing close witness to these tragedies, Tyrmand feels the need to convince downcast Americans that their country is a lot better than they think it is. He takes ironic delight in discerning values in U.S. traits that have come to be generally deplored. "It's true, as American-haters say, that it is possible to sell everything in America." But, Tyrmand adds, generosity and the highest moral values are packaged here too. "Why," he asks, revealing that his book went to press before the present financial crisis, "should idealism overlook the advantages of a perfectly functioning, booming economy...
...need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure." As for the crush of the crowds, he adds: "Where interests are one and the same, we clannish Japanese delight in the multitude, finding in it not solitude but a soothing sense of belonging...
...Leibman is a manic delight in the key role, twitching mutely when in despair, brassily egomaniacal in victory, and forever sniffing the theatrical climate like a raunchy Shubert Alley cat. The rest of the cast play lesser roles with no less finesse, and pace-setting Director Harold Stone leaves no comic corner unturned...
...Frederick Ashton is retiring. The Royal Ballet bears Ashton's personal mark in many ways, particularly in its fondness for classical ballet, its elegant expressiveness and sheer English charm. The company's cheerful penchant for the stately pleasure domes of dance-the long romantic narrative ballets that delight the public, began when Ashton revived them soon after the war. Now Scottish-born Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan is replacing Ashton. He is best known for Romeo and Juliet; but he once transformed The Diary of Anne Frank into a ballet, and no one yet knows what he will do with...
...lyrics have a spartan simplicity, yet they are witty, incisive and playful. Of George Furth, who wrote the libretto, one can only say: Hosanna, finally a book with intelligence. Producer-Director Harold Prince surpasses himself in staging this show and invests each scene with an electric tingle of surprise, delight and authority...