Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the game, the raucous clamor of the hockey arena echoes through the cold concrete passages leading to the locker room. As they dress, the Chicago Black Hawks ignore the din and concentrate on their ritual of making relaxing small talk. But the Black Hawks can seldom find anything helpful to say to the wiry, whisper-voiced man whose square face is delicately crosshatched with scars. Sitting alone, Goalie Glenn Hall, 29, slowly straps on his 40 Ibs. of dark-brown leather pads and fights his regular pre-game battle with his nerves. Great drops of sweat roll down...
Where the Boys Are (Euterpe; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is one of those pictures every intelligent moviegoer will loathe himself for liking-a corny, phony, raucous outburst of fraternity humor, sorority sex talk and housemother homilies that nevertheless warms two hours of winter with a travel-poster tanorama of fresh young faces, firm young bodies and good old Florida sunshine...
Chote is revered as a rake but is actually "virgers." (U.S. students of fictional manners may find Chote's virginity-after two years' service with the British army of occupation in Vienna-somewhat hard to credit.) He pretends not to work, but sneaks off after a few raucous beers at the local pub to do a bit of secret studying. On a scholarship he has gone to a minor but passably posh school, and his family, which has invested all its hopes in the possibility of his sliding into the mysterious, U-type Brahmin group of English society...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...
...student described the painting as "appropriate for an evil child's nursery." Such a remark could once have been the opening for a raucous argument on the merits of modern art. But, until the understudy arrives, life at Harkness, alas, will be bleak...