Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wodehouse prose. In self-justification they cite his storytelling powers. Faced with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things, her niblick. (He had. after all, addressed her while...
...stage animal down to his bones and marrow. In any satisfactory theatrical experience, any single member of an audience feels a communion of spirit with those around him. That is how audience emotion builds so that the entire theater seems to erupt with laughter or stills to a rapt, absolute hush...
...probably would have been, had not Berryman jumped to his death last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans at the moment: just cop-out or sheephood, not independence...
...They are never disappointed. At 10:30 a.m., a stocky woman with soft gray hair and intense brown eyes walks quietly in front of a modest pedestal holding a small statue of St. Joseph and the infant Jesus. An aide strings a microphone around her neck. Then to her rapt audience Mrs. Frances Klug, 51, a devout Catholic, mother of three and wife for 26 years of an insurance agent, explains that she is "only a transmitter" not only for various saints (especially St. Joseph) but also for the Virgin Mary and even the Blessed Trinity...
...poured out of their factories onto the streets in sudden wildcat strikes. In several cities, there were spontaneous demonstrations by young people in support of Chancellor Willy Brandt. "Ah, oh, eh,/ Willy is okay," they chanted. At other times, West Germans huddled round their televisions and radios with a rapt attention that customarily is reserved only for championship soccer matches...