Word: rollicking
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...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...
...woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles for his dog (which answers "Woof! Woof!"), watches the dwarfs play at ninepins, has a couple of drinks while the bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany Night Boat, mostly moonlight and summer, and a five-piece Dixieland band on deck; 5) New York, a one-minute explosion in which the percussionists and their public-service assistants beat, squeeze, crank, .crash and blow vigorously...
...pace; the moviegoer, continuously aware that the vehicle is trying to beat the clock, may begin to feel like getting out to push. At 119 minutes, this might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book...