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...architecture. The big Catalan mercantile families who made their piles after 1850 and ran the city tended to preen themselves on being modern versions of Renaissance princes -- all the more so since most of their grandfathers had been artisans or colonial hustlers. There was a lot of pent- up vigor and ambition itching to glorify itself...
Spring was suddenly in the air, a little later than usual, and trees were tardily emerging from their long winter dormancy, budding and flowering with vigor. Arboreal petals opened, exposing pollen-covered anthers to the breezes, which wafted pollen grains into the air, carrying some of them for many miles. By June, while the late-blooming trees were still in blossom, flowering grasses began contributing to the airborne assault, and many regions in the East began reporting record pollen counts...
...ultimately, for its unpretentiousness, its vigor and its sense of style and language that Hughes loves Barcelona. For the same reasons, one suspects, Barcelona would love Hughes...
...adaptations from Henry James (The Europeans, The Bostonians), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and E.M. Forster (A Room with a View and Maurice). With A Room with a View and their handsomely managed compression of two Evan Connell novels into Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), the team found a ) fresh, elliptical vigor. Here were snapshots of family scenes that, when flipped briskly, revealed society in bittersweet autumnal splendor...
...such a personal attack on Gomes in keeping with this great University's spirit and tradition of academic vigor and fairness? The strong biblical and universal admonition, "Judge not, that ye be not judged," keeps coming to mind. Also the old song title, "Try a Little Tenderness...