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...Qrleans old-timers still remain. They're both based at Preservation Hall, on St. Peter Street just off Bourbon, and so many of their members have died in recent years that the two bands have to share their trombonist, clarinetist, and drummer. These ancient jazzmen play with the vigor they must have had in the barrelhouse saloons and honky-tonks where they played in the twenties. But nowadays they go on tour and play at Lincoln Center and at Symphony Hall, where they were March...
Women in a coeducational school receive "conflicting signals on the 'femininity' of intellectual vigor and do not take full advantage of college," Newell said. She said she hoped the study of women's roles "will be an area of cooperation between Radcliffe and Wellesley...
Fast, tough, sinuous, with a score of Jamaican reggae that jauntily accentuates its vigor, this saga of the career of a small-time pot pusher and pop star is a kind of Caribbean Threepenny Opera. It does not have the depth, but it does have some of the energy and a little of the fury, the same sort of lovingly savage feeling for the brash ethos of the underworld...
...nearly ready for the takeover, from wherever it may come. We have not the mental vigor left to resist, and someone will walk off with the house while we are preoccupied in the bedroom...
Assuming his new responsibilities with an unshakeable vigor, Tip O'Neill has eloquently led House Democrats in barrage after barrage on President Nixon's Economic Report and impoundment of funds: "I find the President's Economic Report deficient on both humanitarian and economic grounds. It is obviously a blueprint for repetition of the economic witches' brew which featured the first two years of the Nixon Administration. That unhappy era was characterized by what economists had previously felt was unattainable: soaring prices and escalating unemployment at the same time...