Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamilton never lacked a rapt audience. His most enthusiastic reception came from the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students and the Harvard Law School Black Students' Association. A natural empathy developed between the black audiences and the black lecturer--pervading ease mixed with a vital excitement...
...musical segments, CBS Director William Graham focused almost exclusively on Oistrakh and Rubinstein, dollying and zooming around them with gentle art, highlighting the dexterity of their finger work and the rapt expressions of two of the craggiest and most variable countenances in all the performing arts. In the Bolshoi segment, he gave the home viewer the same kind of steady, pictorial flow that is available from a good theater seat...
...Dylan's middle period, which has now been extended." He went on to describe Dylan's performance at the Woody Guthrie memorial concert, "Man! he did three songs. They're wild. Man! and he was smiling and that's nice. Smiling at everybody." The admiration in his voice, the rapt Club 47 audience, the enthusiastic reception in New York, all testify that the transformed Dylan still reigns...
...course and were envied for their positions. HRO concerts were keenly anticipated musical events, and the orchestra matched expectations with uniformly impressive programs. In a single concert, they might have played Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Beethoven's Seventh. All Sanders was rapt, and one distinctly felt that something important was happening...
...might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is watched by patient and public with rapt attention. Whether he is a Protestant evangelist (Billy Graham, 47) or a Catholic Archbishop (John Patrick Cody, 58, of Chicago, a U.S. cardinal-to-be), he lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president of Ford) or a master of jurisprudence...