Word: vigor
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...When he presented the model to the Wayne board of governors, he pulled out from his pocket a little wedding-cake bride and groom and placed the pair on top. "Twittering Aviary." Because of this obsession with façade effects, Yamasaki has been denounced and defended with increasing vigor. If placed all together, say his critics, his buildings would make a kind of Potemkin village where heaven knows what might be going on behind the lovely surface. What the buildings mainly lack for these men is a sense of force. By splitting the McGregor building down the middle with...
...citing a friendly service he had done Pope. The poet, Cibber explained, had once been "slyly seduced to a certain house of carnal recreation near the Haymarket" by a young nobleman who wanted to "see what sort of figure a man of [Pope's] size, sobriety and vigor (in verse) would make when the frail fit of love had got into him." Cibber, waiting in an adjoining room, became worried about Pope's health and the future of English poetry. He rushed through the door, "found this little hasty hero, like a terrible tomtit, pertly perching upon...
...Politics folded, Macdonald has been a busy man-about-the-arts, contributing to The New Yorker and the "little" magazines, acting as advisor to Encounter, most recently serving as movie critic for Esquire. This collection is drawn from these years, and if they lack the wartime anger that gave vigor to his political essays, they are more stylish. Macdonald is equipped with enough scholarly authority to carry weight with the highbrows, with enough zest to make him eminently readable by the Midcultists he professes to despise...
Spoofing Mac was also the rage on television. The once staid BBC, which has reacted to competition from commercial TV with racy vigor, brought nationwide complaints with a satirical TV revue called That Was the Week That Was. One of the most outrageous TWTWTW skits featured a doctored newsreel of Macmillan, making it appear as if he were saying exactly the opposite of everything he really said. Another had Macmillan telephoning the White House. Says he: "Hello, Jack, this is Harold . . . Harold Macmillan . . . Macmillan...
...played him Tony Quinn, he would never stand for that cuckoldry.' Last week he decided that the fellow must have had a crippled father whose incapacity had forced the son to work as a youth; and this imaginative insight has given him new vigor in the part, which he goes at with such competitive enthusiasm that he sometimes seems to cast a ham-fisted shadow over the more fragile performance of Margaret Leighton...