Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera itself was tuneful as a merry-go-round. Lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Conductor Thomas Schippers. making his Met debut at 25, kept a wary eye roving over the orchestra. With the same vigor he had shown in the pit of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10), he put a spin on every phrase. The music chuckled, twittered and bounced from one carefree music-hall polka into another...
...leaving only a working; library and herbarium at the Arborctum. Research in Jamaica Plain, it was felt, was then hindered by crowding and fire-hazard conditions. The details of unification, however, were not spelled out in Bailey's report. "What we are primarily concerned with is the health and vigor of Botany itself and what Harvard with its particular set of resources can contribute best toward this central aim,"Paul H. Buck, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in his foreward to the plan. In January, 1946, with the endorsement of the Arboretum staff, the Corporation...
Lady Macbeth, too, remains something of an enigma. Barbara Forester plays the part with a good deal of vigor and violence, both of which are appropriate in spots, but not throughout. Her malice and ambition could be more impressive if they were less blatant, and her occasional shrewishness obscures understanding of her subtly poisonous influence upon her husband...
...industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's only son John was killed fighting with the Irish Guards in the battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted...
...equipped surroundings near where one Nicholas Eisenhower, an ancestor of the President, established a farm in 1753, and one Captain Dwight Eisenhower commanded a World War I tank unit at Camp Colt, the President this week settled down to bringing himself and his Government back to the condition of vigor and motion in which he left for Denver long weeks...