Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer in his own right. My personal feeling is that once exhumed, such a piece of Buxtehude's music as the Toccata in F that Weinrich is playing will be enjoyed by a good many people for its directness and simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time, Buxtehude will return to the dust from whence he sprung, in the last judgment valuable only as an influence. Sweelinck, too, will prove to many that importance does not necessarily mean dullness, but will then creep back into his historic little cubby-hole, into that dictionary significance...
...launching of the frigate "Constitution" at the mouth of the river, of the annual income of 100 pounds given to Harvard from the tolls collected on the bridges across the Charles? These and many other chapters in the story of the river are recounted by Mr. Tourtellot with considerable vigor and feeling...
...could they have chosen one more heartily against Mackenzie King. To keep the support of the potent, close-knit French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite as much, cites the cases of many labor leaders and radicals...
...series of related episodes, How Green lacks the dramatic vigor of a unified story, but it has a kind of sustained theme in the relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good...
...Kansas City Star's able Washington Correspondent T. C. Alford concluded an opinion-sampling swing through Missouri and Kansas. His report: "In . . . the center of the Midwest isolationist belt, people no longer talk about the chances of keeping the United States out of the war but . . . discuss with vigor whether or not this country should enter the war now and get the job over as quickly as possible...