Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course is honest without the courage of financial prudence. But we cannot afford to bankrupt the national conscience to serve the ends of political bookkeeping." He assured the U.S. that he and his party stood ready to save it from a Government marked by "a deficit of vigor, a deficit of confidence, and a deficit of will...
...distinction can be made (and, in a sense, it cannot), the main interest of Twelfth Night is poetic rather than human. The characters lack the idiosyncratic vigor of Shakespeare's best comic characters, and very little that they say or do is very funny. Their emotions are never intense; the lovers, with all their pleading and scorning, their smiling and sighing and blinking back tears, are, as has been pointed out before, less in love with each other than with love itself. The play's charm derives very largely from its rather limp-wristed, but very pretty, love poetry...
Scherchen displayed a conducting technique as precise and economical as the motions of a tailor threading a needle. In the climactic passages, he laid into his work with a vigor that set his white hair flopping. The result was a finely tooled performance, full of the nuances and dynamics that are Scherchen's stamp...
...that the physiological effects of the training meal were negligible. The only consolation offered to old-school devotees was the possibility of psychological benefits--viz. "the sense of security generally attainable by the practice of rituals" or ego-building derived from "eating red meat as a symbol of manly vigor...
Twelfth Night & Henry V. New vigor from the Old Vic. In TORONTO...