Word: rollicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprejudiced eye can now see that Rosa Bonheur's celebrated horses do indeed rollick with inimitable vigor, a battle scene by Meissonier can be moving, a lush nude dancer by Theodore Chasseriau genuinely sensual. Many people have always felt this, but now they can admit it without seeming hopelessly unsophisticated. Taken together and seen thus, argues Director Anthony Clark, the period was the "proudest century of French painting...
...more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington...
...President had one chance for real relaxation. It was the soth birthday of his longtime friend Dave Powers, who serves as receptionist, relaxer, and rollick-some wit. Kennedy threw a surprise party for Powers, called him into the Cabinet Room to attend a "secret session" on Laos, handed him such gifts as a sweatshirt emblazoned VIGAH, a certificate for 50-mile hikes between the reception desk and the White House refrigerator for beer, and a silver stein engraved...
...solemn was the occasion last week that even in the birthplace of the steel bands their sonorous sounds were banned from the streets for a night and rollick some calypso singers were allowed to perform only indoors. A new red, white and black flag went up, the Union Jack came down, and Trinidad-Tobago became the eleventh British possession granted independence since World War II. The islands' 825,000 Africans, East Indians, Arabs, Chinese and British began a nine-day independence party designed to top the birth-of-a-nation celebration in nearby Jamaica 26 days earlier...