Word: lightheartedness
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But Dunne deserves to be remembered for his more lighthearted days, when not even Montaigne was Mr. Dooley's master: "Thrust ivrybody but cut th' ca-ards." "A vote on th' talleysheet is worth two in th' box." "Most vigi-taryans I iver see looked enough...
Loyalties of the Purse. Inevitably, much of Author Levron's material is not new. Nancy Mitford nine years ago produced a lighthearted biography sympathizing with Pompadour's difficulties and praising her good taste, which, since she was the major patroness of the arts in France, set the age...
Gone were the dark glasses, slouch hat and sullen manner. In sunny Portofino, a smiling, bareheaded Greta Garbo breezed ashore from Movie Producer Sam Spiegel's yacht Malahne, sent a crowd into camera-clicking ecstasies with a big "Hello," joined her shipmate for a lighthearted shopping spree and dinner...
The main factors responsible for all this noise, according to A.M.C., are more leisure, more money and more concern about music in the schools. The combination has spawned both serious and lighthearted groups of after-hours instrumentalists in almost every community.
In Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing...