Word: liven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tootling into Thailand to liven up the U.S. exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That...
Time for a Change. In Anderson, S.C., charged with malicious mischief after he set off two sticks of dynamite at a political rally, ex-Convict Andes ("Footsie") Wood explained to cops: "I did it just to liven up the meeting a bit. I couldn't see who was talking from where...
Only when the heroine goes into her ''dance of vengeance" do things liven up again. At that point Conductor Mitropoulos took over the dancer's role for himself, shrugging one shoulder grotesquely to the syncopated piano rhythm, splaying the fingers of his left hand to the spastic tempos. The music got more conventional in texture as it got noisier, but ultimately, sheer noise was sufficient: as the last, clubbing chord thundered out, the Philharmonic's subscribers gasped, and then burst into applause...
...liven up the opening of a mental health exhibit in London, Britain's waggish Minister of Labor, Sir Walter Monckton, tried on a brain-wave recording device for size, came out looking as if he were a fugitive from a Martian barbershop...
...resulting inequitable distribution will not disappear, however, until the House stereotypes that cause them are destroyed. At the present rate, rather than dying out, the stereotypes cannot help perpetuating themselves. A student who enters a House hoping to find a party atmosphere, for example, will naturally help liven the festive air already there. Freshmen who dislike a House's label because they do not fit it will apply else-here. Housemasters, even those seeking varied composition, are largely limited to students who apply either as first, second, or third choice. So a House's atmosphere, at first derived from Master...