Word: vibrant
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...just a mature democracy but a vibrant, fast-growing economy. The world has come to know a new India over the past few years, a place of outsourcing and hi-tech start-ups, of software engineers and steel barons. We expect such places to be shiny and secular and scientific, focused on technological breakthroughs and making money. We don't expect religious riots and communal clashes and bombings. In India, full of paradoxes and wonderful, frustrating inconsistencies, you have both: hi-tech business parks and age-old religious grudges; software savvy alongside sectarian brutality. Resolving those contradictions may well decide...
...With a talented ensemble, Gielgud resurrects a beautiful example of classical ballet in the 20th century. Giselle is vibrant, stunning, and entertaining—and “Giselle” is all the better...
...recent trip to Mumbai (formerly Bombay), though, I had the great fortune of eating at Trishna, tel: (91-22) 2270 3213, the one restaurant in India that had made Apple's list. It's located in one of the side streets in Kala Ghoda, a vibrant sliver of private art galleries, museums and restaurants in the city's Fort district. Don't be put off by the street-level façade, which was wooden until recently but is now, because of decay, being concreted over...
...representative of the conservative movement on campus.First, on a political level, the conservative movement and The Salient diverge widely on our ideological views. The Republican Party, the vehicle for American conservatism, is a mainstream organization, built on a legacy of 200 years of American democracy; we believe in a vibrant American democracy, unalienable rights, and the non-establishment of religion by the state. Yet The Salient continues to provide the perception that the Harvard conservative community is stuck in the feudal past—questioning and even opposing basic appeals to human rights, gender equality, and the progress of democracy...
...Johnny Carson's favorite running jokes--the staid assistant bandleader dubbed "Mr. Excitement," the "comatose commander" and the "man from bland." Yet Tommy Newsom's beige suits and low-key persona belied his reputation as a vibrant saxophonist who toured South America and the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman, won Emmys as an arranger for TV specials and composed for singers from Kenny Rogers to Beverly Sills...