Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
This is still a good country. A month in the Britain outside London is enough to convince anybody that there is a lot of vigor and promise left in the people who live the real life of this island and who do its real work. The alien traveler returns to London with a sad feeling that all these confident, energetic, likable Britons whom he has just met don't know what has hit them. But their strength has always been that they never know when they are down,* and maybe that matters more than anything else...
...Sheridan has pleasant vigor in the earlier, comic scenes. Kent Smith, battling against plot circumstance, simulates some believable confusion and sickness of heart. But both players put up a losing fight against the story's unreality...
...seedsmen were hawking their spring wares with a new peacetime vigor, hoping to keep sales near wartime levels. In the annual carnival of catalogues, the color work was gaudier than ever, the prose more aglow than before with full-bodied, giant varieties of superlatives...