Word: lightheartedness
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The 2,850 km-long Danube kicks off in Germany's Black Forest and flows eastward through 10 countries to the Black Sea. Once part of the Roman Empire's border against barbarian hordes to the north?and of vital strategic importance to contending armies during the two World Wars...
Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in Continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or extending his poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined...
The most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands...
The networks' other summer offerings appear to be more viable commercial enterprises, or at least more shrewdly targeted. Nostalgia for the 1950s and '60s is the rage this summer, as the networks try to woo members of the baby-boom generation, presumably those viewers who are most likely to sample...
The audience found the plot lighthearted at first, laughing at the unintentional mockumentary-like tone.