Word: rousingness
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Members of Congress interrupted the speech 28 times with applause that was noticeably louder on the Republican than the Democratic side of the aisle. When it was over, the President was called back to the podium to receive an outsize birthday card and a rousing round of Happy Birthday to...
The incident typified the rousing reception accorded the Pope during the first phase of his twelve-day Latin American tour. The exchange, however, underscored a more important matter: John Paul was not just a barnstorming superstar generating good cheer, but a taskmaster issuing challenge upon challenge. When chants broke out...
On both sides of the footlights, Mama is very much a family affair. The audience is composed largely of black families in their Sunday best, and onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy...
The setting was historically apt. Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum...
Sophomore Kevin McCarthy swept his three sabre bouts, while three other Harvard fencers dropped their matches in the last round, turning what might have been a rousing win overall into a dangerously close one.