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...Hybrid Vigor...
...Adrienne Rich's second book of verse. For Miss Rich is not playing a guessing game or constructing her work of the over-brittle, almost nervous niceties that appeal to a number of modern academic poets. Her poetry combines relaxed craftsmanship with an uncompromising clarity that gives new vigor to themes that are far from...
...screen was not likely to become a major issue in the U.S. as it had been in Britain (see below), but last week the U.S. TV industry was campaigning for votes of its own with all the vigor and many of the weaknesses of a full-fledged political campaign...
...founding of Phrax, the soothsayer predicted that the city would live through more than nine human generations. As soothsayers go, he was pretty accurate: it lived some 200 years before enemies stormed it and set it afire. By then, decayed old Phrax, the vigor of its youth and the wealth of its maturity gone, was ripe for death...
...than rebel Shivers, as he watched his power dissolve behind him during the post-election years. Under Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House (and single head of the Texas faithful, now that illness has removed Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson from the arena), the Democratic loyalists gathered in new vigor to nibble at Shivers' empire...