Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, I'm easily amused, but the Gilbert and Sullivan Player's second production could easily amuse anyone. After all, the only thing that Gilbert and Sullivan really requires is a good chorus and plenty of vigor. Iolanthe has both, and more. The show has a few good voices, enough upright carriage and arching of brows, and just the right proportion of gentle traipsing. Iolanthe's brilliant lines, scoring Liberals and Conservatives, Queen Victoria, and the peer-made British plebes, Parliament and Chancery and even Captain Shaw of the London Fire Brigade, could carry virtually any cast. Happily, they...
...usual, the chorus dominates the production and, in this case, typifies its vigor and beautiful clumsiness. The fairies, while retaining their mock grace throughout, have enough individuality of feature to be genuinely comic, rather than a mere weary shuffling crowd. And the Peers manage to retain their stiff upper lips almost all the time, but fortunately not quite all the time. (Besides, they manage some very nice harmonies.) Richard Grand, the stage director, keeps them moving just enough to keep things lightsome...
...Nasser. Indications are that Eden never expected and certainly never prepared his nation for all-out war with Egypt. Instead, Eden apparently believed that Nasser was a straw sphinx who would crumble at the first threat of military action against him. Eden may also have underestimated the depth and vigor of the U.S. response, and of the amount of moral indignation toward aggression still left in the world...
...policewomen, police dogs and, lately, Russian tanks. During those years, the Communists strove with all their might to destroy the faith of Eastern Europe's 60 million Catholics. As Mindszenty went free, their failure was obvious to the world: the Church of Silence now spoke out with undimmed vigor...
...fight them," wrote Mohammed in the holy Koran. "What liars they are." Mohammed meant Christians and Jews, whom he had expected to accept his new vision. When they did not respond, he took to the sword. Before the onslaught Eastern Christianity declined in numbers, vigor and territory. Within 80 years of Islam's birth, the mosque had replaced the church from Antioch to Carthage...