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...Richard Reeves. We knew he was no saint. Now we have 800 carefully researched pages to tell us that J.F.K. was more Hollywood than Harvard, a gifted politician who relied on his charm rather than deep understanding and conviction. He was often ''careless and dangerously disorganized.'' The image of vigor was also an illusion: hormone shots compensated for failing adrenal glands and amphetamines perked him up. Reeves' dose of reality is a needed antidote to the cloying hagiographies that have marked the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death...
...commitment to the American people and they are responding, out comes yet a new round of these outrageous, terrible stories that people plant for political and financial reasons.'' Mrs. Clinton threw herself into her work with fresh vigor, but her husband seemed somber and distracted in private meetings. In public he was unusually careful in his words. ''I just don't want to do anything to prolong this,'' he said. The Spectator article, long on damaging detail but short on corroboration, was based largely on interviews with two Arkansas state troopers, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, assigned to Clinton...
...this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender ’27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid from 1952 to 1960, described his ideal Harvard student as “a good, healthy extrovert...
...can’t help but wonder whether her impending marriage forced a drastic reimagining of her sound. It’s been a while since she’s had the youthful vigor to pound out something like her perennially catchy single “All I Wanna Do.” But now she can’t even embrace the past-her-prime-but-still-partying persona that artificially sparkled on her more recent efforts. So what’s a girl...
...texture of Bizet’s score without sacrificing any of its vibrancy.With a pared-down set and sound, Serrand’s “Carmen” was forced to rely on the merits of its performers, who did not always uphold the opera’s vigor. Yet at the same time, simplicity gave the production a refreshing ambiguity. Stylistically belonging to no discernible place or time, this production has reinvented “Carmen” as a modern-day romance rather than as a classical masterpiece...