Word: lightheartedness
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The voices that hold this lighthearted evening's entertainment together are sound. Both student and professional leads are musically competent enough to keep Donizetti's swoops and lilts of melody sounding natural, though some have less luck with the words. Margery Hellmond '83, who alternates with professional soprano Priscilla Ganley...
Throughout the album, as on the two before, several basic styles merge--a sea-chanty-like instrumental called "Lucky" precedes "Rain," which kicks off with a vintage Nashville feel. Then "I'm an Automobile" features a hard rock thump and a lighthearted come-on called "Schoolgirl" arrives with a skipping...
Walesa is married, with six children; his youngest son was born only four weeks ago. Like the vast majority of workers, he is devoutly religious. One day he vanished from strike headquarters for a time, and when he reappeared, he was asked whether he thought a settlement of the strike...
Certainly there have been wide swings in public opinion in this 1980 presidential campaign. And just as certainly there will be more swings. But volatile, according to the dictionary, describes one who is "lighthearted," "fickle" or "capricious" and whose views are "transitory or fleeting." Applied to the current mood of...
JOHN HUSTON'S Wise Blood, adapted from Flannery O'Connor's first novel, proves that a spirited story, a lighthearted screenplay and subtle direction can bring a major piece of fiction--Southern fiction--to the screen. Rarely have great pieces of literature been successfully translated into cinematic terms, but Huston...