Word: vigor
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...Spider's Stratagem also contains what has become by now a hallmark of every Bertolucci film, a scene of dancing done with a certain intense but stately vigor. Here, the elder Magnani takes a partner and leads her proudly and gracefully round the dance pavilion, demonstrating his contempt for the astonished Blackshirts standing on the sidelines. It is a lovely, graceful scene, and suggests another title for the film, First Polka in Tara. Not as apt, perhaps, but probably more commercial. - Jay Cocks
Kirkpatrick insists that he was not shoved out. But it is no secret in Washington that the President has been bothered by the proconsumer vigor that Kirkpatrick injected into the once lethargic FTC. Under him the agency began requiring advertisers to submit periodic documentation of their claims. The FTC ordered a few advertisers-including Sugar Information, Inc. and the makers of Profile bread-to run corrective ads to straighten out earlier misleading claims. The FTC also advocated that broadcasters allow "counteradvertising" by groups that oppose a product or a message that regular advertisers are trying to push. Under the proposal...
...occasionally been strained, however, most notably by a recent two-hour interview that Kissinger foolishly granted to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci. The quotes in that performance were so startling and hubristic that some readers familiar with Kissinger's intellectual style suspected Fallaci of embroidery. "President Nixon showed great vigor, a great ability, even in picking me," Kissinger is quoted as saying, apparently in all seriousness; of course he was quite right, but perhaps he should not have been the one to say it. In an interview that fairly bristles with the first person singular pronoun, Kissinger revealed that he loved...
...playwright's middle plays sometimes resemble a man's middle age. He has lost something of the initial impetus, vigor and enthusiasm of his youth. He has also become somewhat skeptical of the ardent loves and rock-sure beliefs that are the trusted absolutes of the young. Yet he is not old enough in years for the long view, the contemplative wisdom which encompasses the entire life span of existence...
...Though both believed in a strong government that would not flinch from taking resolute action, they were hostile to big bureaucracy, with its overcentralization and deadening uniformity. They preferred to accept society in all its luxuriant if inegalitarian variety; they made a policy of trying to pump life and vigor into local government. As an American politician, Nixon can hardly endorse aristocracy but he would surely agree with Disraeli's praise of the aristocratic system in England as ready to receive "every man in every order and every class who defers to the principle of our society which...