Word: enliven
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...expense of professional theatrical people. The story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis King, Conrad Nagel-does little to enliven it. The trouble with the book isn't just that it is old or uninspired, but that it is so painfully omnipresent. Music in the Air intrudes no clever lyrics, displays no chorus line, offers no dance numbers. This makes it as rare a bird among musicals generally...
University Police Chief Alvin R. Randall, shouting, "No, no, somebody might get hurt" also frustrated Cabot's efforts to enliven a parade before the rally. Randall refused him permission to lead the march in an antique auto, and said the University band could not march through a line of posts between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses, for fear of possible injury...
Folk dances from a dozen countries will enliven an International Folk Dance festival to be held in Memorial Hall tomorrow night at 8 p. m., with a chance for the general audience to trip a few instructional measures...
...dare you, how dare you ... insult our leading prima donna!" sputtered one irate reader. "You Americans are obsessed with film star glamour." Flared another: "Perhaps in America they enliven Butterfly with troupes of performing dogs." From still another: "You silly little man . . . my advice to you is to take the next plane back...
...children of syphilitic parents or grandparents," he warns, "are never born equal to the child of clean blood." He inveighs against "the whining ingrate, the campus trollop of either sex, and the cinema degenerates, using pep hills to enliven their dreariness...