Word: romp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers (ten entirely new, including a hilarious spoof of rock 'n' roll), they gave their audience the full catalogue of spins and jumps, lifts, and meshed-gear movements that they are famed for. The Graham company offered two new numbers: a rollicking, Shakespeare-inspired romp called One More Gaudy Night, and Visionary Recital, a somewhat murky exposition on the three faces of Delilah (Awakener, Betrayer, Seducer) in which Martha Graham (as Awakener) triumphed over her 67 years with a modicum of disciplined effort. Neither of them was topflight Graham but both were performed with top-drawer skill that...
What strength Amherst does have is in the doubles: against Yale last Thursday, the Jeffs managed to take two out of three. But the total picture against the Bulldogs was not nearly so favorable, as the Elis added six singles wins to the one doubles victory to romp off with a 7-2 triumph. And Yale, unfortunately for the Amherst rooter who would still like to rank his team high, is not considered to be particularly strong this year...
NCAA champion by virtue of its 6-1 win over Minnesota in the first round and its 12-2 romp over a hopelessly outclassed St. Lawrence squad in the final game, Denver was called by Menard, Minnesota coach John Mariucci, and most other experts at the tournaments "the finest college team ever assembled...
...progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic of self-realization, as Huxley saw it, divided men into two camps-the Good-Timers, who dwell in the City of Dreadful Joy, and the High-Lifers, who "go a-whoring after...
...ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense of style to their very distortions of it and making every baroque French character a bright character part, L'Impromptu is a neatly controlled romp, a briskly ceremonious curtain raiser...