Word: joyousness
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President Pusey, in dedicating the Brattle Street structure, called it "a joyous evening to celebrate." "Many people have dreamed about a theatre building," the President commented, "and we owe deepest gratitude to John Loeb...
...watch Khrushchev bounce down the ramp all smiles. The scattered crowds on the streets to town barely outnumbered the 8,000 cops and nearly 1,000 plainclothesmen assigned to protect Khrushchev from Vienna's big refugee population. Since the Soviet press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same few faces from every possible angle. Though they dutifully reported in Pravda that "the center of Vienna has blossomed into smiles...
That did it. Penny dashed over to congratulate West Germany's Heidi, who exploded in one joyous round of hugs, then slipped away. Baffled newsmen, 1,000 strong, waited in vain for Heidi at a scheduled press conference. The new Olympic champion was taking...
...Manhattan's cavernous Basin Street East to catch some summit-level jazz presided over by Old Maestros Benny Goodman on clarinet and Red Norvo on vibraharp. But if the Russians really dug the decadent, blood-tingling music, they showed it only with polite applause, an occasional twitch, no joyous faces...
...year-old Vienna Philharmonic is a patrician among symphony orchestras. Others may be suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold...