Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Center and scheduled to play in New York and London, is opulently and ebulliently staged; it makes a refreshingly short, diverting summer evening at the theater. But it is not really a ballet. The dancers move through production numbers stitched together by recitatives of mime. They smile brilliantly, toss back their heads and wave champagne glasses. Often there is not much else for them to do. A question recurs with nagging frequency: Why aren't these people singing...
...while Bok managed to smile gracefully, as though he had finally learned his way around these tribal rites of Harvard alumni, Harry Selig positively beamed. Fifty straight years! He hasn't missed one 25th reunion, starting in 1926 with the Class...
...green trees, purple and white petunias and fundamentally decent people who live in Dixon are probably the same as in most small towns. But a leader only leads as he (or she) becomes aware of the people in the cities too -their hurts and frustrations and despair. A bright smile, glad hand and simplistic phrases are not enough...
Amiable Lies. There are a couple of funny baseball stories in Some Champions. Lardner's hero is the stalwart Keefe, who has a nice smile and a gorgeous head of bone. He brags in a letter to Friend Al that he is in line for a big raise if he beats the Red Sox. The date of the story-roughly 1918-can be guessed from the fact that the Boston pitcher is Babe Ruth, who had not yet switched to the Yankees and the outfield, and from the size of the big raise-$600, bringing Keefe to the affluence...
...change of pace, everyone is marched up to the stage, row by row, to confront the crowd, est workers eyeball each trainee from a few feet away, while Ron screams to "get rid of that phony smile, drop that face!" Legs buckle. Four people faint; one throws up. Then two more processes. One on danger: as we lie there for hours, eyes closed, listening to Ron conjure up images of danger, est attendants clump ominously around our bodies. More agonized screaming. Last, a "reverse danger" process. We are told everyone around us-in fact millions of people -are afraid...