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...even know who was the town's richest man. It did not seem to matter. The composite Clevelander was beginning, to get the idea that he and his civic-minded wife had a pretty fair share in decisions affecting his life. He was certain of one thing: vigor and imagination were at work again. But he still wished something could be done about the climate...
...Wind Falls. The Company's vigor, as that of all companies must, in time abated. Last week, the Company was up for sale to Britain's Labor Government. The price was not yet fixed (the Company had rejected a Government offer of ?2,100,000), and assorted descendants of the original Sultan of Sulu were raising claims to the island. But there was no doubt that the grandly anachronistic rule of the last corporate Raj was doomed. Said the president of the court of directors, white-haired, parchment-skinned, 76-year-old Major General (retired) Sir Neill Malcolm...
Harlan Stone again read the dissenting opinion. Seldom had he been more impressive or shown more vigor in delivery. His voice was clear and strong as he said: "It is not the function of the Court to disregard the will of Congress in the exercise of its constitutional power...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...
...film is made with unshowy, clear intelligence. The playing of Verdi has a vigor, sensitiveness and brilliance which only Toscanini himself, in performances untroubled by the interruptions necessary to his new medium, could excel. And the faces of singers and musicians at work are now amusing, again very moving...