Word: enlivenment
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...fraternity offers a range of diversions at reasonable cost. For an $85 lifetime membership plus $5 a month in dues, regular parties, pool games, TV, and cardgames presently enliven the social lives of nearly 30 undergraduates. Two-thirds of the members are sophomores who were impressed by a "rush" party held last October in SAE's home on 85 Putnam...
Taut direction and strong acting more effectively enliven the limp script in Home Free. As a brother and sister living in incest, Bob Waldinger and Susan Ehrlich taunt and comfort each other with a vehemence that flickers between sibling rivalry and lovers' passion. The play is too long, but Waldinger, cowering and speaking with a mouth askew, and Erhrlich, alternately imperious and wistful, draw up the yarn into a ball of tension...
...plot does not exist is merely to follow the playwright's lead, but it is more difficult to avoid Mildred's fantasy encounters with Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly and King Kong. These are as cute as quicksand and replete with campy posturing. Maureen Stapleton tries to enliven these proceedings with her patented brand of chicken-coop hysteria, which is itself fast becoming a theatrical hazard...
...each other very nicely, and are a high point in the evening. Yet, they are static, and in the end differ in no particular way from their status at the beginning. Similarly, the mayor, portrayed by Wayne Mitchell, remains unchanged by events. But generally his performance does less to enliven the evening...
...hospital ship is sent to relieve suffering, not to help a war and Hersh known that. Then to call it The Auschwitz is nothing but blasphemous malice to enliven a speech. Since Hersh and his audience know well how wrong such foul remarks are when made of Vietnamese, he has no excuse nor did the student who asked slyly why I got so excited. In the meantime I have called to obtain information to my belief that the hospital ship was there to help all, and I am confident to be proven fight. Union there is an apology, Hersh...