Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truly great social satire produced by strong imaginative vigor are the chief traits which will make Sinclair Lewis work live as long as American literature is read anywhere three professors of English agreed last night...
While the Crimson was heaving with ineffective vigor, Pennsylvania was piling up points on careful and well-timed shooting. Sophomore Ernie Beck used a beautiful falling-away jump shot very effectively, getting four goals in each period...
...suggested a plan of "deterrent" power that hinted at something less than U.S. garrisoning of Western Europe: 1) build up "enough economic and political vigor, enough military strength" around "the captive world" to withstand Communist aggression by civil war "or even by satellite attacks"; 2) hold unswervingly to the Atlantic Treaty's promise to fight Russia if she started all-out war-but keep the freedom to counterattack wherever & whenever the U.S. thought it would do the most good...
Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller's Enemy is a shortened, sharpened, slanged-up version, with some new blood replacing the old, flaccid, translator's English. And Fredric March plays Stockmann with helpful vigor. But Miller has given the play a more agitated but less striking face. His version is not so much bitter satire as topical melodrama (with some of the new blood smeared on the characters' foreheads). It is not so much an affirmation of minority rightness as a plea for minority rights; it suggests a man persecuted less for telling the unpalatable truth than...
...this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future of civilization depends on what we do-on what...