Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero (Paul Newman) is a raucous young crown prince of the cue who challenges the king (Jackie Gleason) to do battle for his throne. For 36 hours without intermission, they have at each other: now hacking fiercely at the glistening balls, now waving their cues exquisitely, like pallid wands, as the balls disappear, and always drinking, drinking, drinking as they play. Hour by hour, rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows...
...orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...
Corny? Sure. Funny? Yes-not in the tradition of the dry, understated comedy that made the British film industry famous after war's end but in the loud, raucous vein of I'm All Right, Jack...
...just spending a quiet evening reading Horace. I don't quite understand what all this raucous noise is," Harvard President Nathan Pusey told 1,500 students storming the locked gates* of his Harvard Yard home. Exercised by the university's sudden decision-after 325 years-to inscribe Harvard College diplomas in English instead of Latin, the Cambridge classicists were undeterred by Pusey's non-Horatian plea...
Lilacs bloom listlessly in the dooryards, and the fluid play of baseball is again at hand. Shrill raucous crics of encouragement and derision shatter the cool air above Fenway Park, unruly urchins hurl dirty oranges and even dirtier epithets at their adversaries. Only the umpire's stolid face, inflexible as Procrustes' bed, retains its wintry imperturbaility...