Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally tender of its youth ("America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation . . .") and he could grow lyrical, in his strangely dissonant way, over a New York crowd-"a crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd...
...London is to accelerate the mobilization of ... vast untapped moral and material resources in the free world. We must develop those reserves to the best of our ability. We should be doing so even if international Communism did not exist. As things are, we must do so with utmost vigor...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...
...resent your slur on the shipbuilders of New England: the presidential yacht Williamsburg "rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor . . ." [TIME, March...
...before he finished this last testament, and before he had noted down just what instrument or instruments should play it. Hence it is variously performed on the organ, by string quartet, and, as here, by a small orchestra. This performance is clear and calm, but short of vitality and vigor. Recording: excellent...