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...Such vigor dispelled any White House qualms about Klutznick's age. Indeed, the Chicagoan insists that it was he who first brought it up. Says he with a laugh: "If they think I'm competent, who am I to deny...
...minutes into the second ten-minute overtime period, as darkness descended, B.U. finally moved ahead. Even then Harvard did not fold, as Mike Mogollan, courageously playing despite his injury, pumped renewed vigor into the Harvard attack...
Economists believe that the nation's business will decline again this fall. Nonetheless, signs of continued economic vigor abound. Homebuilding, which is usually hit hard by high interest rates, remains strong; housing starts actually rose by 4.2% in September, to an annual rate of 1.9 million. At the same time, the use of the nation's industrial capacity edged up above...
Seigenthaler smiles as he speculates that perhaps the spirit and vigor of the Kennedy administration was all in our heads. "But no," he says with more conviction, "there really was that sense of purpose." It was in this spirit that the Justice Department sent Seigenthaler to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961 to protect the freedom riders, who were protesting segregation in the south. While trying to save three women riders from a "mob attack" he was hit with an iron pipe and knocked unconscious...
...bombards us with images harsh and lush; passion for the country whose policies she hates scorches the pages, evoking South Africa's beauty, sordidness and terror. She moves from the overripe living room of an apartheid apologist to the stinking hut in a black township, from the lucid vigor of South Africa to the luxury of the Rivieva. Her prose mimics the near-cryptic, emotionally loaded economy of poetry, with all its symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost like plowing through about 400 pages of poetry, too-as difficult and rewarding. Gordimer's structure demands ingenuity and patience...