Word: jovialness
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...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
Disclaiming abstractionism and surrealism alike, Joan Miro paints gaily-colored fantasies, filled with cavorting, infectiously-jovial organisms, figures in a symbolism which is both intensely personal and completely charming. As a young man, Miro was influenced by the Dadaists, and he has been frequently accepted as a surrealist, although the simplicity and individuality of his idiom far transcends surrealism...
Thanks to Howard Bay's sets, it never loses its looks. Jan Clayton (Carousel) proves a winning Magnolia, Colette Lyons an agreeable Ellie, Buddy Ebsen a live dancing personality and Ralph Dumke a jovial Captain Andy. And handsome Carol Bruce, tackling the Bill that made the late Helen Morgan famous, brought down the opening-night house...
Best bets remaining: Canada's shrewd, easy-going Ambassador to Washington, Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's jovial, capable Trygve...
Perhaps the most glaring of these is the radical change in Father O'Malley. In "Going My Way" he was a genial but forceful ecclesiastical troubleshooter who reinforced a sagging church; in the sequel he is transformed into a jovial buffoon guilty of every imaginable blunder...