Word: enliven
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...until grammar becomes a matter of opinion, and vocabulary an artistic style, "amo, amas, amat" must rule the language classroom. Sermons will not change instructors' attitudes toward verb declensions. To enliven and modernize the language teaching, the Faculty must recognize the inherent difference between instruction in language, and teaching in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities...
Hanfmann pointed out that the show will "afford an excellent opportunity for Greece, and Rome, some unsurpassed anywhere, which will help enliven his torical periods covered by various courses in the College...
...fact, a mere setup for the action-matters less than that everyone else is so nice. Never were people more aggressively charming, genteelly rowdy or sweetly romantic (for Late Love has more than its share of early love). Arlene Francis and Lucile Watson do what they can to enliven things; but the play is for those who take their tea very weak, and with three lumps of sugar...
Today's Classgoer notes selections to enliven Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays...
...idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking. In individual roles, such players as Joseph Schildkraut and Philip Bourneuf enliven the proceedings. The speeches at times are blurred, but the play's peculiarly Shakespearean finale, with its melancholy charm, is beautifully achieved. Says one of the lovers...