Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...librettist exhorts us, too, to "restrain those who fondly court their bane," and scolds those spending their lives "In frantic mirth and childish play/ In dance, and revels night and day..." The music during this mercifully short third section is much slower, perhaps taking its cue from Jennens' admonition that we "Keep...still the same in look and gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite...
...Globe theater, much as Hollywood wagers on that audience for its movies' successes. And just as politicians today decry the lack of family values in the movies of Hollywood, a Parliamentary edict of 1642 (under the Puritans) considered "stage plays" to be "spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levities," and so banned performance of plays for close to 20 years. In his time, Shakespeare was popular culture...
...problem with this production is that half the cast has not picked up on the sense of mirth that overrides the bitterness. It as if we were not watching a comedy at all. Lady Windemere and her suitor Lord Darlington play their unhappiness straight as if she were a trapped maid and he her sentimental savior. The two have such a hard time with Wilde's snappy dialogue that their love affair of miscues is in mortal danger of never getting off the ground...
...year: this year's commencement speaker. While five Crimeeds furiously tried to brainstorm as to who the "crowd-pleasing women" could be (that was the only tip they could manage to get). FM sat watching this debacle for a good half-hour, chortling away in our private mirth before we called our imminently dependable (and totally hush-hush) source. Within minutes, FM found out that the speaker, while neither a crowd-pleaser or a woman, was our Vice President Al Gore...
...random appearance of the John Hancock Building, to the untrammeled mirth of the Chicagoland crowd...