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Life in the Ivory Tower is far from placid--the vigor Bok shows in addressing difficult issues deserves praise. The continued use of phrases like "notwithstanding" notwithstanding, the book is clearly written and provocative, which will come as a welcome surprise to those who have slogged through his open letters...
...brought aboard to breathe vigor into a venerable but increasingly sleepy-eyed old Midwest industrial firm. Instead, the five-year tenure of Archie R. McCardell, 55, first as president and then as chairman and chief executive officer of International Harvester Corp. (1981 sales: $7 billion), has taken the ailing truck and farm-equipment manufacturer to the edge of financial ruin. Last week, after two years of heavy losses and forecasts of worse to come, the aggressive and hard-charging McCardell abruptly vacated his $480,000-a-year post. Though bankers and colleagues expressed surprise at the announcement, the real wonder...
...Tessa, one of the gondoliers' brides. Hughes is a natural actress, and her commanding, sensuous mezzosoprano is the vocal equivalent of chocolate-chocolate chip ice-cream. Margery Hellmold's performance as Casilda is further proof that first-rate singers enroll at Harvard: her soprano has a rare purity and vigor but never becomes inappropriately operatic...
...adjectives are often extravagant--"hilarious and hellish little boys," he writes in "Old Bud"--but they serve to inject the poet's perspective into what is initially a third-person description. And while some of Wright's speech-like rhetorical devices might water down a poem, they add vigor to the paragraph forms. The packing together of lyrical sounds--as well as the repetition of words--creates a strong sense of unity in poems like "In Gallipoli...
None of this means, though, that the pure vigor and passion can't put enough spin on the story to provoke a certain exhilaration. In this jewel-studded dagger-edged world, desperate passions in unshaded colors often seem more believable than subtleties could in their ability to ignite passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop...