To claim the angels for the nation would connect us to one of the liveliest eras of our history and one of its most remarkable men".
He played almost every position and spent so much time with the Dodgers he was given the nickname "Methuselah". In a sign that not much has changed from one generation to the next, he disdained the advance of the "lively ball" era after he retired, saying, "In the good old days, we played heart and soul for one run, whereas now they play for 10 or 12". Hummel died in 1958 at age 76.
Berkeley directed only the musical production numbers (such as "42nd Street" and "Lullaby of Broadway") in four of the five lively Depression-era backstage melodramas and comedies here ("42nd Street," "Gold Diggers of 1933," "Footlight Parade," "Dames," and "Gold Diggers of 1935").
Cast in the rhythms of Baroque dances (an Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte and Gigue) but couched in a mildly dissonant harmonic language, the suite is a lively dialogue between eras, with a touch of the lyricism that would distinguish Perle's later music.
You averaged 37 in Test cricket in an era of lively pitches and high-class bowling.
Yes, but color and video may well improve a new era of livelier e-books.
You heard it instantly in "North Star Boogaloo," a sly, lively conflation of slave-era lore and basketball heroism that Mr. Lewis wrote for Mr. Schick in 1996.
And while late-60s Melbourne was livelier than Soviet-era Poland, the future inventor kept to himself.
The work draws heavily on the silent-movie era, from its lively hand-painted black-and-white sets, exaggerated acting and makeup, Satie-esque musical accompaniment, dialogue cards and good-versus-evil plot (more black and white).
Mick LaSalle, in his lively recent book on the era, "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood," quotes the ad for "The Divorcée": "If the world permits the husband to philander, why not the wife?" Why not, indeed!
