Word: vigor
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Thank goodness Knowles was. Openness and candor are, indeed, vital qualities for any dean; Lewis had them in spades. He also had any number of other traits that suited him for the job which he fashioned and to which he devoted eight hard years: vigor, thoroughness, determination, passion, intelligence and, above all, an overriding commitment to the idea that Harvard should be preeminent in every area, both inside and outside of the classroom...
...complex shoot-out in a train station), a starry performance by Zhang Ziyi and enough period atmosphere to clog your lungs. But Lou seemed to be in a debate with himself about what kind of film he wanted to make. He ultimately chose avant-garde abstraction over the melodramatic vigor this large subject demanded...
...would be my pledge that the University will, in the future as in the past, uphold the commitment to academic freedom with all the vigor that we can,” Summers said in the April 8 statement...
...understand the social scene on this campus, and beyond that, the potential for union (both spiritual and physical) between the sexes. He spoke in a lexicon that was both strange and familiar, foreign and native. With a slight lisp, he ran through compound words and terminology with almost preternatural vigor, mixing the most ribald details with the most profound of allusions. It was as if I simultaneously understood none of what he said and that his words were the very translation of my heart’s secret Braille. I later learned he had published one book, entitled...
...Harvard being Harvard, many students expressed their feelings with commendable wit and vigor. Then, in an initiative of debatable value, HUDS decided to print for each dining hall a veritable tome of 135 single-sided pages containing every single response to every question on the survey—and hidden among the rough are some gems representing the entire spectrum of academic disciplines...