The word of the day* for January 13, 2007 is “raucous” — adjective 1 : disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse <raucous voices>. 2 : boisterously disorderly <a...raucous frontier town -- Truman Capote>.
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I was dreaming a great movie plot as I woke up this morning. It would probably have to be a Disney movie, as the principles were two early-teen girls. They were on their way to a Swiss finishing school: one with her parents, the other with a “minder.” The train on which they were riding had a car full of murder-detective game participants. A group of German soccer fans/players occupied the dining car. There was some mystery about an empty vase one of the girls carried, and something about having matching cameras. Then at a stop where the girls were allowed out for a bit of exercise, they were involved in an attempted kidnapping, thwarted by the soccer enthusiasts who were only too glad to have an excuse for a fight.
I woke up before a good denouement, but given the set-up, I can think of several good endings. So if y’all see this in a Disney movie next year, you’ll know where they got the plot.
The quote† for today is of Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960), British Labour politician. Quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1962)
His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.
;^) Jan
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