Word: vigor
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...personal unpopularity could lead to his defeat. To Javits, whether Johnson is beatable or not is irrelevant. As he sees it, the G.O.P. is obliged to put up a strong fight if it is to lay a base for 1972 and, more important, if it is to retain its vigor as a major party...
Though the nomination may thus be a prize of dubious worth, Javits pursues it with no less vigor for that reason. After all, throughout his career the G.O.P. has handed him crumbs, and he has invariably turned them into seven-layer cakes...
...Edward McCormack endlessly intoning for the sincerity earnestness, vigor, vitality idealism and new blood of youth in his campaign without giving more than the barest hint of what he intended to do with all the energy...
BRAHMS: LIEBESLIEDER WALTZES (RCA Victor). To a world that has waltzed to the elegant confections of the Strauss family, Brahms's Liebeslieder (with lyrics of Georg Daumer) may seem a bit heavy in a distinctly Teutonic way. But they have their own solid, unpretentious virtues: warmth and vigor that suggest Saturday night at a comfortable old Bierstube rather than a glittering ballroom. The performance by the Robert Shaw Chorale is robust, the piano of Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir downright athletic...
...could take away the years of lightning with a single day of drums," says Narrator Gregory Peck, as he eulogizes the authentic youth, vigor and intelligence of the Kennedy attack on half a dozen major issues. The Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, the "conquest of space," civil rights, peace and freedom are the projects ticked off-sometimes in conventional shots of happy peasants and hopeful Negroes, more often in briskly edited footage of Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti...