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...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Twain's Mississippi...
Premiered by Diaghilev in 1923 in Paris' Théâtre de la Gaité Lyrique, Les Noces has not been performed in the U.S. since 1936 because of the difficulties of mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet Theatre, which has had its ups and downs since it first burst on the U.S. stage with such freshly contemporary ballets as Robbins' own 1944 Fancy Free. Its current season at Lincoln Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended...
Kennedy brought to his office, Morgan then said, "a freshness, vigor, brilliance of stuffy routine" which continued with the "eight years of which preceded...
...popular and respected man, Scott is looked upon as one of the strongest forces for revitalization within the party, and the GOP certainly never needed him more than it does now. The Senator has accepted the role with vigor; he has about him the aura of a man with a mission. And when he says, "We'll get our party back," one gets the impression that he is just...
Using this technique, the USIS attempts to communicate the "spirit" of Kennedy's two years and 10 months as President: his "youth, intellect and vigor." And it is most successful when it lets Kennedy speak for himself. Around the world, says the narrator, the Kennedy administration confronted communism with the determination of our people to defend freedom, justice, etc. But the "face" of anticommunism does not come alive until Kennedy himself stands before a crowd of cheering West Berliners and challenges those people "who do not see the issue between communism and freedom," those who think that "communism...