Word: rousingness
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Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton; $14.99), presents a rousing rarity: a brand-new backwoods legend, written mostly for girls, that has the feel of real frontier storytelling. Angelica Longrider, born in Tennessee in 1815 and known far and wide as Swamp Angel, was "scarcely...
TIME's Carney, who attended, says Clinton's "rousing speech" galvanized an otherwise soporific DLC parlay and persuaded many moderate Democrats that the president would reposition himself to their liking. (Clinton antagonist McCurdy, Carney reports, was so enthusiastic that he said blurted out, "That's the Bill Clinton we've...
Uh, yeah. After backup quarterback Steve Kezirian's rousing performance on Saturday, no one doubts, that the Crimson has two guys who can run the offense.
The Crimson corps, on the other hand, looked dignified in its Crimson blazers, played rousing renditions of Harvard classics and behaved like any self-respecting college band should: irreverant, obnoxious and humorous.
Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black...