The editor was an energetic right-wing clergyman named Father Norbert Wallez, who kept a framed photograph of Mussolini on his desk.
Bob Fosse's film version with the incurably energetic Shirley MacLaine (right), on the other hand, may be a better bet.
This was because the cast - or tribe as they liked to call themselves - weren't actually all dropouts from some odoriferous stone age but a group of highly talented, energetic people right there punctually in the name of entertainment.
It's a very energetic mix right out the gate.
But not Trump's online armies on the alt-right, energetic hordes of nativists, white supremacists, anti-Semites and, yes, homophobes whom Trump has emboldened.
The sardonic humor survives intact, the writing is energetic, the plot moves right along.
Justice Antonin Scalia, who has been on the court since 1986, was for years a lonely and energetic dissenter on the right.
Mark Waldrop's energetic direction sets the right tone and gets the laughs, but the overall production has a bit of a cartoonish feel.
Refugees also back him, for his energetic support for their "right of return" to homes in what was Palestine before 1948 but is now Israel.
