Word: enlivenment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted one nightclub owner...
...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...