Word: vigor
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Apart from money, voters can be swayed by a candidate's vigor, by the beauty of his wife, by the skill of his speechwriters, and by his reputation outside of politics (no matter how irrelevant that may be to his qualifications for office). There is no practical way to achieve absolute equity for candidates. But in a capitalist democracy, money is the great equalizer, the great leveler of odds. To limit its use in politics would limit freedom, rather than protect...
...political snag over textiles shows, the dangers of a U.S.-Japanese trade split go far beyond economics. Japan has been the greatest force for postwar stability and progress in Asia, largely because its industrialists have channeled the vigor of the Japanese people into peaceful pursuit of markets. If that Japanese trait is denied commercial expression, it could explode in frustration. Averting a U.S.-Japanese blowup will require a much deeper understanding of the nature of the friction than either side has shown so far. Many Japanese leaders play down the American resentment as being largely a consequence...
...Making It, the film makers added a couple of years to the protagonist and a lethal dose of cynicism to the script. Kristoffer Tabori plays an adolescent Alfie with vigor, humor and great promise, qualities that the movie itself lacks completely. He spends most of his time bounding around Albuquerque, sleeping with a high school coach's wife, seducing pliant teeny-boppers and-understandable after all the frenetic activity-nodding out in class. Aficionados of Hollywood bad taste will have much to cherish in Making It, but nothing will please them so much as the scene in which...
Lean also exacted precise performances, with Peter O 'Toole's Lawrence-both sensitive and hateful, frolicsome and brutal-one of the most convincing portrayals of a man of eccentric genius in all film. Anthony Quinn and (surprisingly) Omar Sharif effectively project the vigor and broad coloration of their tribal chieftains; only Alec Guinness as Feisal and Arthur Kennedy as a caricatured Lowell Thomas struggle with roles which are too obviously vehicles for thematic development...
...past forty years," a museum spokesman explained, "have been organized by guest experts." But Baur did agree to consult black experts "wherever feasible," an exquisitely vague phrase; the B.E.C.C., which gave the museum a list of black specialists, insists that this was not done. Curator Doty maintains with equal vigor that he did talk to these specialists, but it seems to have been a matter more of consultation than collaboration. Last January the B.E.C.C. announced a "massive boycott" of the Whitney show, claiming a breach of faith. Andrews himself barred Doty from his studio...