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What struck him most, as his memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, attests, was the ceremonial vigor of the people. Ranging from almost European pale to jet black, the Negroes of New Orleans had many social clubs, parades and picnics. With rags, blues, snippets from opera, church music and whatever else, a wide breadth of rhythm and tune was created to accompany or stimulate every kind of human involvement. Before becoming an instrumentalist, Armstrong the child was either dancing for pennies or singing for his supper with a strolling quartet of other kids who wandered New Orleans freshening...
...colleagues say when Weld has the rightjob before him, he attacks it with vigor...
...public, Carret was renowned for his financial innovation and accomplishment. The Qualities that made him a success--vigor and enthusiasm--also shaped his personal life...
...confusing and often tense relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges was challenged with new vigor last spring during competing capital campaigns and came to a head in the past several months, leaving many questioning Radcliffe's status as an undergraduate college. The administrations of the two schools have had semi-public battles over issues ranging from programmatic offerings to the lease agreement of Byerly Hall. The Undergraduate Council even entered the mix, passing a bill (which was not approved by the administration) requesting that the signature of Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis '68 be added to women...
...Mesher's story suggests, and many doctors insist, more isn't necessarily more with Viagra. Known to chemists by the less evocative name of sildenafil (the word Viagra, redolent of both "vigor" and "Niagara," had been kicking around Pfizer for years, a brand name in search of a product), the drug began life as a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart. Sildenafil, it turned out, wasn't so good at opening coronary arteries, but happy test subjects did notice increased blood flow to their penises, a side effect brought to Pfizer's attention...