Word: sprightlier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read-rather like a simplified musical score-from top to bottom. It opens with a four-note theme of palest yellows made of three narrow stripes and followed by a wider one-much like the "V for Victory" opening of Beethoven's Fifth. However, Noland's sprightlier pastorale modulates into a green andante, followed by an adagio of cornsilk white, a reprise of mint, and a coda built around a bland band of airy, spring-sky blue...
...tossed salad? Take heart. For every ailment, TV Horticulturist Thalassa Cruso has a remedy: "A highhanded plunge into a bathtub full of sudsy water will do wonders for your plant." If not, well, "then throw it out. You'll feel much happier replacing it with a fresher, sprightlier plant...
...pages instead of the customary four, the Star has stooped to imitating many features of the capitalist press: a sprightlier makeup, more sports and television coverage, a woman's page, a medical column ("Slimming the Sensible Way"). Otherwise, the paper plays the same old tune. A big headline blares: "U.S. Troops Told 'Bring Your Own Prostitutes.' " An editorial assures everyone that the Star will champion People, Youth, Justice, as seen through Red eyes. And the paper continues to carry the familiar advertisements: "Men's watches from the U.S.S.R.," "New films from Vietnam," "Wines that please...
...press. Since 1921, Denson has filled slots on a press wire service, five magazines (including seven years as Newsweek editor), a radio network and five dailies in three cities. At the Trib, his splashy style, unorthodox headlines and capsule summations of the news made the paper sprightlier in appearance...
...week's end Wein & Co. were singing a sprightlier tune. Performing jazzmen and local merchants were not pressing for their bills, ticket holders might be refunded with jazz albums instead of cash, and so it looked as if the festival would just about break even. While power shovels scooped heaps of beer cans off the streets, talk about permanent cancellation ("This means the end of the Newport Jazz Festival," Founder Louis L. Lorillard had said in the dark weekend hours) had all but disappeared...