Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transcendentally brilliant performance by young Diana Sands. Hitherto mainly admired for her power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with an incredible display of dynamic vigor and histrionic virtuosity. She can take a run-of-the-mill phrase or line and make you double over. What a gall Alan Alda makes up the rest of this tandem tantrum...
Volpe's liberalism is strictly Republican and in some ways regrettably limited. For example, his fetishistic respect for home rule makes him oppose a state-wide minimum wage for teachers. However, when welfare measures do not conflict with home rule, he supports them with the vigor of a man who has known poverty intimately. And, on the prime issue of constitutional reform, the prerequisite of any liberal program, Volpe's position is impeccable...
...gestures, his words seem hopelessly commonplace. Wednesday he began an address to the student body of Westport Academy by celebrating "all these bright shining faces of young people wanting to learn how to be good, solid citizens." He continued the string of hackneyed phrases for ten minutes, but the vigor and excitement of his voice triumphed in the end, and the students awarded him a crescendo of sincere applause...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Those who wonder if the energies of our ear-pulling President have been exaggerated in the press should turn to this roman a clef about Johnson. Ex-Aide Brammer has caught the voice, the idiom, the excesses, but most of all the protean vigor of the President...
...swing through seven Western and Midwestern states. Speaking from a makeshift platform over second base in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, from a mule-drawn buckboard in Sacramento, and from the stump of a 6-ft.-thick Douglas fir in Eugene, Ore., Barry stayed on the offensive with slashing vigor...