Word: liven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Problem. Sanford Koufax is a lawyer's son who stumbled into baseball by chance. At Brooklyn's Lafayette High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called...
...twin turntables with all the grace and flamboyance of a 19th century concert pianist. When too many dancers take the floor in France, the compleat disquaire strikes them into their chairs by playing a French song-recurrent proof of the popular theory that Frenchmen hate their own music. To liven things up, disquaires turn to Ray Charles or a hully-gully by The Cookies...
Critics of group instruction dismiss it as mere gimmickry that de-emphasizes discipline and overlooks outstanding individual talents. When Joan Geilfuss, a Pace student, divided her group classes in Charleston, S.C., into teams to liven things up, traditionalists spoke scornfully of her "piano parties." But Joan could scarcely have cared less. Last year not one of her 35 students dropped out, although the estimated dropout rate for children who take up piano playing in the U.S. is over 30% after the first year...
Reds would liven up the show with one of their water-throwing vehicles (they did not). Paar had decided earlier that ''because the Berlin crisis warrants sober consideration, we intend to treat it just that way." Back home on Capitol Hill. Congressmen snorted "shocking" and ''intolerable"; the Pentagon split all five sides and promptly removed one Berlin-based officer, admonished a second. Quipped Paar, "All I can say is it's going to get a hell of a rating for that show...
...Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal game, it is clear that she is a master of Authors, the game of royalties...