Word: vigor
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...there was one lesson that U.S. negotiators should have brought home from the unexpected successes of the NATO conference in Paris, it was that the future health of NATO depends on the vigor of the U.S. response to the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic challenges. One night last week President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took to network television to report to the nation on the NATO conference. Their report showed neither vigor nor urgency, was poorly conceived, indifferently staged and dully performed...
Europeans had been inspecting him solicitously, cheered by every sign of vigor in his broad-armed wave or generous grin, but quick to note any slowing in his speech or in his gait. Around the table this week, NATO's chiefs of government watched Dwight Eisenhower and the nation he represented with the same commingling of doubt and uncertain hope...
...able direction, Perkins plays a smoldering, resentful, romantic teen-age Eugene with a quiet sensibility that gives his last vibrant scenes (the very last is one too many) their stunning force. Jo Van Fleet is extraordinarily good as the mother; as the father, Hugh Griffith acts with a vigor and virtuosity that match the role. The play, at its best, conveys how, for almost every true writer, youth is a bursting of bonds and a simultaneous bondage to dreams; and how, for most men, the impact of their own flesh and blood can become at times a thing of blood...
...Wife better than clogs, but neither is ideal. The play needs vitality as well as style, not least where time has lamed it. Even so, the evening all in all is enjoyable, but it creates no feeling that The Country Wife has either genuine social meaning or unusual farcical vigor...
...hastily-summoned paddy-wagon did not, however, arrive on the scene for another ten minutes, and Rev. Pugh was able to continue his exhortations, with increased vigor, from the middle of the street...