Although a new song, "Bama Lama Bama Loo" (1964), invoked the fun and vitality of his heyday, record-buying youngsters were not impressed.
Macfarlane ultimately sees wildness as "not about asperity, but about luxuriance, vitality, fun.
It's not just that Macfarlane finds certain kinds of satisfaction for himself - creating, as he promised to do at the outset, a map in which the priorities of motorists are replaced by sites of natural wonderment, and discovering that wildness is not inevitably "about asperity, but about luxuriance, vitality, fun".
Spring blossoms and fresh green leaves, after the cold barrenness of winter, herald a new season of vitality and fun.
The Bournonville treasury of teaching and choreography gives the Danes a particular inheritance of vitality, charity, fun and innocence that are the chief source of their reputation.
You can find pirated versions of some the stories he ran in Spin on the Web, but they don't nearly approximate the vitality and fun of the old print copies.
In the classic triple-hankie tradition, Charlotte is the picture of sparkling vitality and fun until she has sudden fainting spells (always at crucial dramatic moments and at picturesque locations like the ice rink at Rockefeller Center).
Something to do with watching Narnia, drinking adults' tea with sugar and being lulled into liking it, but also feeling as sad as if I had agreed to die, because it was school tomorrow and I would have to go to bed and there would never be vitality or fun in life, ever again.
"We need to figure out the common ground between wanting to have food and other services available in a fun manner — it certainly adds vitality to an area — and wanting to balance consumer safety and merchants' concerns," said Mr. Dufty, who is also a mayoral candidate.
