Word: vigor
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...precedent in the 1956 election campaign by frankly discussing the state of his health. Last week the Democrats picked up "the health issue" and were playing hard politics with it among themselves. Jack Kennedy began the intramural scrap by declaring that the presidency demands "the strength and health and vigor of ... young men." Supporters of Lyndon Johnson leaped to the conclusion that Kennedy was making a not-so-subtle allusion to L.B.J.'s 1955 heart attack. "Citizens-for-Johnson" Director John B. Connally countercharged that Kennedy secretly suffers from Addison's disease, an incurable but now controllable deficiency...
...even an oil portrait-of assorted musky ladies of close acquaintance. He talks with espresso-shop idealism about TV, but he matches much of that talked idealism in his work. With far more non commercial daring than a David Susskind, he brings audiences a lot of the variety and vigor that TV once promised. Something less than television's first saint, he at least, in the words of one of his directors, "compulsively avoids the obvious...
...Reinhardt plays Hotspur at too high a pitch, Impetuosity, excitement, and vigor would suffice but he gives us an overwrought, almost frantic, interpretation that lacks all subtlety. Hotspur's ineptness was matched by Franklin Cover's Owen Glendower. The splendid and famous interchange between the two--"I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man;/But will they come when you do call for them?"--has no life and no wit, save what is in the lines. Reinhardt as Pistol in the second part shows greater understanding of his role, and provides...
...today, were not fully recognized in the Gilded Decade of the 90's. Popular health beliefs centered around the notion that summers should be restful, not devoted to scholarly endeavor. Poring over books for twelve months of the year was considered unwise, leading possibly to illness or lack of vigor. The staid Boston Herald once again fixed a jaundiced eye upon the Harvard campus, editorializing in part...
...brother's side and enthusiastically read Jack's speech to an audience of miners in Ravenswood. As Ted Kennedy recalls it, "I was saying to the audience, 'Do you want a man who will give the country leadership? Do you want a man who has vigor and vision?', when Jack took the microphone and said in a hoarse whisper, I would just like to tell my brother that you cannot be elected President until you are 35 years of age.' So back to the boondocks I went...