Word: enlivenment
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...Senate Judiciary Committee does not often enliven its deliberations with erotica. The opportunity arose, improbably enough, during its hearings on the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States...
...protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...Council has traditionally been apolitical, concentrating on extended arguments over the purchase of color television sets and the sponsorship of sherry parties. This year a few members tried to enliven the group by suggesting some vaguely political activities. After persistent stalling, the council finally agreed to conduct a referendum on the Vietnam...
...therefore more effective. This is not necessarily true. RGA's greatest weakness was its inability to transmit student opinion to the administration, despite Mrs. Bunting's religious attendance at the often deadly boring meetings. It is hard to see in what mysterious ways a smaller student government could enliven these meetings; it is impossible to see how a difference in size is gong to aid communication with the administration...
...lute, a 14-string, potbellied cousin of the guitar whose more delicate strains went out of fashion two centuries ago, Bream has a special capacity to enliven the courtly archaisms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. This is not only a matter of musicianship but of an instinctive sympathy for the older period's flavor, style, and more restrained decibel level. He reads about the era voraciously, fancies that he might have felt right at home in it. "I strum one chord on the lute," he says wistfully, "and I go back 400 years...