Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that there are some who want to generate a situation to persuade the U.S. and the American public that, as (Columnist) Mary McGrory put it, even if the only thing to come out of the summit was an agreement to exchange ballet troupes, then even so people would be gleeful and happy...
Though David Wingrove has offered up a perfectly acceptable rendition of the play, he misses numerous chances to partake in Pinter's gleeful subversiveness and turn Betrayal into a work directly relevant to the thousands of nascent Harvard Yuppies trading self-conscious banalities over demitasse at Tommy's Lunch...
...grass-roots Western conservatism with some Eastern Establishment moderatism. Selecting a vice president a vice president to balance the ticket is hardly new: the party nominee almost always chooses the potential second-in-command more for ideological or geographical appeal than for talent or expertise. This year's prematurely gleeful Democrats all too readily dissected their female candidate into the politically relevant pieces: woman, mother of three, Roman Catholic, Italian, liberal Democrat, and New Yorker...
...when given the chance to ask a question of his female opponent. Lee Csanad, a typographer, said indignantly, "Bush certainly underscored the fact that to this Administration our opinion has never mattered." The Bush campaign's post-debate donning of the manly trappings of the locker room-from gleeful references to kicking ass to an exchange of challenges about "manhood" with Mondale-was explained by Ohio Governor Richard Celeste as a reaction to anxiety. "That sort of defensive thing happens whenever women get close to power. Men just don't know how to handle...
Originally, Maazel had declared that he would not return to Vienna after his contract expired in 1986. With what appeared to be almost gleeful haste, the opera company signed his replacement, precipitating his departure rapido: Italian Claudio Abbado, 50, who finished as music director at Milan's La Scala opera house last month. (Maazel's purely administrative duties have fallen to new General Director Claus Helmut Drese.) To fill Abbado's prized post, La Scala tapped another Italian, Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor Riccardo Muti, 42. In 1982 Muti rejected a similar offer from London's Royal Opera...