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...vigor before the television cameras, Morris left his interview with the President with a chastened look. Asked what Truman had told him, he refused to say, crying: "No, no, capital NO. I'm a guy who talks too much. I'm well known from the Bronx to the Battery as the man who talks too much. This time I'm not talking." Twice a New York City Council president and twice an unsuccessful anti-Tammany candidate for mayor, he was asked how political infighting in Washington compared with that in New York...
When a movie star is billed as having "it" or "oomph," what she probably has is heterosis (hybrid vigor). At least, that is what Geneticist George D. Snell says. In the current Quarterly Review of Biology, Snell assembles evidence to show that superior qualities in humans, including physical attractiveness, are often due to heterosis, resulting from the crossing of two strains...
...felt the full benefit of heterosis. The peak year of foreign immigration was 1907, but many immigrant groups tend to marry among themselves for a generation or two. The groups are now breaking up, Dr. Snell says, and the U.S. may soon have an outburst of hybrid vigor comparable to Elizabethan times...
Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens has been singing the role of the wanton gypsy for seven years, but never in such abandoned and sultry fashion as last week. Her new Carmen was a personal triumph-and thoroughly in keeping with the vigor of the Met's new production...
...seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites.") At the end of the third concert, the musicians joined in the applause, tapped their bows against their violins and cellos in compliment...