Word: prankishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matronly and shrill, Aggie seems an anomaly in the Herald-Examiner's mannish, prankish city room. But in her 36 years as a journalist (30 on the Herald-Examiner, 15 as its city editor), Aggie has kept such a muscular grip on the news of L.A.'s seamy side that no one thinks of the greying grandmother as an interloper in a man's world. Years away from her reputation as the town's best crime reporter, she still keeps up a running dialogue with the underworld that helps her paper to impressive scoops...
Kennedy has always had a way with the people-a presence that fits many moods, a style that swings with grace from high formality to almost prankish casualness, a quick charm, the patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge and a greed for facts, a zest for play matched by a passion for work. Today his personal popularity compares favorably with such popular heroes as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower...
Handel's L'Allegro and II Penseroso was written only a short time before the Messiah, but the guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable...