Word: joviality
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...rest of the cast featured numerous strong performances. Paul Siemens '98 as Claudius started out well, striking a deliberately ambiguous balance between jovial sympathy and ominous hints of temper, but later resorted to indicating the kings conflicting and repressed emotions by playing the role with physical stiffness on the one hand, and bellowing anger on the other. Christine Nyereyegona '00 was a regal Gertrude, if rather lacking in subtlety in her bedroom confrontation scene with Hamlet, and Jesse Hawkes '99 was an unobtrusive and shamefully underexploited Horatio. The luminous Ophelia, of Jessica Kaye '00, too, began winningly enough...
...amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record to send to Hanoi, turn jovial and break out the vodka...
...usually accepted human life as it came, and he shaped it his way. But he didn't accept everything. By the middle '50s, Armstrong had been dismissed by younger Negro musicians as some sort of minstrel figure, an embarrassment, too jovial and hot in a time when cool disdain was the new order. He was, they said, holding Negroes back because he smiled too much and wasn't demanding a certain level of respect from white folks. But when Armstrong called out President Eisenhower for not standing behind those black children as school integration began in Little Rock...
Jiang reached back into Mandarin for a Chinese idiom and promptly lost his translator in the process. The translator managed to say for a jovial Jiang, "I should be glad with the progress made by the next generation...
...Bosley (a TV veteran best known for his roles in "Happy Days" and "Murder, She Wrote") makes a fine Cap'n Andy, jovial and kindly but with unexpected edge. The rest of the cast are generally quite good in their stock roles. Sarah Pfisterer as Magnolia demonstrates some impressive vocal chops and manages to convey the girl's radiant innocence winsomely, as well as her later, more subdued dignity as an abandoned wife. Real-life husband-wife team Kirby and Beverly Ward almost steal the show as the husband-wife comic team of Frank and Ellie who leave the show...