Whether or not this was intended, it called to mind Berio's wife, the singer Cathy Berberian, whose lively voice and personality inspired perhaps the greatest of his "Sequenzas" — No. III, for female voice — funny, sexy and altogether captivating.
His opponent was Bob Scheer, age thirty, a dashing editor at Ramparts magazine, the slick, lively voice of the fashionable San Francisco left (and the direct ancestor of both Rolling Stone and Mother Jones).
Nao's lively voice, by turns breezy, petulant, funny, sad and teenage-girl wise, reaches the reader in the pages of her diary, which, as Ruth Ozeki begins to fold and pleat her intricate parable of a novel, washes ashore, safe in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, on a small Canadian island off the coast of British Columbia.
At the pop end of the spectrum is the Disney studios' 1951 animated version, with its bright colors, familiar tunes ("I'm Late," "The Unbirthday Song") and lively voice work from the likes of Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna (as the Mad Hatter and March Hare, respectively).
The book, in a lively voice that speaks to anyone who, like Ms. Peterson, has ever daydreamed over the inviting pages of National Geographic, tells of her leaving detailed instructions (never opened, it turns out) with her children on how to handle her affairs for a year, riding packed trains in India, and starting a love affair with an Austrian scientist in Nepal.
She makes the victim, a daughter of '70s suburbia named Susie Salmon ("like the fish"), an omniscient, beyond-the-grave narrator, with a lively voice and a comfortable perch in the afterlife from which to survey the doings of her family, her friends and the neighbor who killed her.
The resonance is bolstered by popular songs, often issued in the lively voices of the films characters.
(Parental guidance is suggested). With Ms. Martin, the other players -- Ted Brackett, Tricia Cox, Heather Olt and Kennedy Pugh -- bring lively voices and feet to the production.
As all of this is being dutifully explicated, the lively voices of Roosevelt and his contemporaries (in a book that devotes more than 200 pages to notes and an index) effectively brighten the atmosphere being conjured.
Lively voiced his support for the revision on his blog, writing, "Since the alternative to passing this bill is to allow the continuing, rapid, foreigner-driven homosexualization of Ugandan culture, I am giving the revised Anti Homosexuality Bill my support".
At first the liveliest voice to be heard is that of a droning fly, occasionally punctuated by static-distorted bursts of music from a portable radio or the kind of groaning yawn that makes you want to strangle the yawner.
