Word: rah-rah
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...through such laments as It Gets Lonely in the White House. All through Act II, the ex-President glooms about being out of the White House, dosing himself with musical pep pills (You Need a Hobby). Having opted for sentiment instead of satire, Mr. President should have been rousingly rah-rah; instead, it is mostly nahnah...
Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation...
...come through with its usual assortment of trivia, phoniness, and institutionalized rah-rah. Maybe, in the dim beyond, its editors will mature, but they haven...
...ballyhoo begins: the buildup in the back country, the tank artists and local strongmen, the charm where it works and the arm when they ask for it, the planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...