Word: vigorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sherriff's Journey's End, which in 1928 sold 100,000 copies, put the fledgling firm on its financial feet. Once established, Publisher Gollancz astounded his competitors with the vigor of his advertising, revolutionized England's literary publicity with boldfaced, importunate copy. No slouch on the mechanical side of the business, Publisher Gollancz took a lesson from German Tauchnitz, standardized the binding and typography of his product. Since the world fell on troubled times, he has had the wit to add to his large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made...
PROFESSOR SALVEMINI has written an economic study of Italian Fascism that is deeply convincing and sparkling with enthusiasm. From the first page he leaps onto the trail of Mussolini's "corporate state" and runs it down, point for point, with a vigor and venom that make his scholarly work one of the most fascinating treatments of modern Italy...
...obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character, and in so doing the film has apparently insulted "good taste." Instead of the mechanical, stop-watch kisses of Hollywood pictures it allows its actors to demonstrate the full power...
...French Revolution, and the distant rumble of the full Napoleonic area. Yet the novelist's personality is too weak for these high and mighty personages and events; it reveals itself as equable where it should assume the "saeva indignatio" of Swift. We have a right to expect vigor, because the historical period with which it deals has long been the "moment" of vigorous writers like Stendahl, Lamartine, Thackeray, and very recently the Russian Vinogradoff. Compare "Black Thunder" with "The Black Consul" and you will have a contemporary measure of Mr. Bontemps...
Running through his speech at Ft. Wayne with increasing vigor, Mr. Hoover showed on Saturday that much of the power of the Republican Party still depends on him. Although the latest salve against the New Deal contains nothing different from the usual offerings of sound money, economy, and freedom form government interference, his newly-found eloquence and his position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former...