Word: vigorously
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Texas lacks much use for intellectual concerns, but it is not so much anti-intellectual s simply unintellectual. Its driving ambition and vigorous energy, channelled into business and agriculture, do not clash with intellectual preoccupations, but instead diverge from them. McMurtry laments that condition, but retains a grudging admiration for the state's "freshness, vigor, openness, undepleted energy, and - most importantly--undepleted possibility...
...wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
Theodore Roosevelt, renowned for his vigor, sometimes used to finish his presidential work by noon and go off romping with the kids in the afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
...right wing, she has won respect-and perhaps some support-from the left and center as well. The energy apparent in her spirited, sure-footed performances in the House has injected new life into a flagging party. After Heath's lackluster performance for most of last year, this vigor alone accounts for much of Mrs. Thatcher's appeal. "I just make lists of things to do and get a lot of pleasure in ticking them off," she once explained. And she has a long, long list...
...Britain's Giles Cooper than it was as rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered...