Word: vigor
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...Vigor. Once described as an actor always on the verge of being discovered. Quinn has elected to discover himself. "I like what's happening to me now for the first time," he says. "It's the great, wonderful, lovely luxury of learning to think." His language has become pure pate de Strasberg. He delves down into the characters he plays until he is scraping the nails in their soles. "A doctor takes a responsibility when he so much as looks at your throat." he says. "I have to dissect the whole man. I'm responsible...
...that I'm looking for enormous wealth. I'd just like a nice house--on Beacon Hill if it weren't so expensive--and a chance to enjoy the best of America." The best of America. We paused, and asked him what he thought it was. "There is a vigor of thought at the highest levels in this country," he began. "Intellectually, at your best, you're thriving, you're much more alive than England. Your writers--men like Trilling, Edmund Wilson, Kazin, Saul Bellow, Malamud--are terribly exciting. Even the non-professional people: look at how trenchant and vigorous...
...supervision of the University's rapidly growing Graduate School of Education have shown it. He has a clear vision of what urban schools systems could be in this country: strengthened by federal money, freed from provincialisms, and staffed by teachers with palpable incentives to teach; and he has the vigor to persuade other educators of the need for radical reform. One's only fear about the appointment is that the job's wretched history and low status--to which Harvard Deanship itself managed to lend a certain weight--will neutralize his efforts. Secretary Celebrezze, education floor leaders in the Congress...
...Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
Barabbas. Anthony Quinn stars as the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross. Christopher Fry's dramatization of Par Lagerkvist's novel is filled with vigor as well as religious insight...