Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hedda Gabler seems to founder not through lack of talent but through lack of vigor--in conceptualizing, in listening to the lines as they're spoken, in following the illusion through. An ounce of committed effort could still send an electric current through this play, turning it into a hair-raising experience. Without it Kaplan, like Hedda, is precious unlikely to create any perfect moments...
...going gets technical at times. Burgess assumes, for example, that most of his readers will recognize the "mystic chord" of Scriabin when they see it on a staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony...
Once again, Americans have decided that good public schools are essential for the public good. Parents, educators, business people and politicians everywhere are forming grass-roots coalitions to raise standards and improve the quality of instruction from kindergarten to senior year. Their vigor is bringing a new vitality to education, the institution that has been called America's secular religion. Says Terrel Bell, U.S. Secretary of Education: "There is currently in progress the greatest, most far-reaching and, I believe, the most promising reform and renewal of education we have seen since the turn of the century...
...TIME board, though, feared the economy's vigor could lull Congress and the White House into ignoring a critical problem that will eventually threaten the recovery: the burgeoning federal budget deficit, which this year is expected to reach a record $209 billion. Created by a combination of large tax cuts and heavy Government spending, the deficit has given a powerful boost to consumers and helped lift the economy out of recession...
...cope with history before it happens." He was a pioneer in using scientific and mathematical tools to project the future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering on arrogance. He briefed, and at times berated, every President starting with Harry Truman, and at his first hour-long meeting with Ronald Reagan in 1981, he permitted the new President to get in only a few words. "The main thing we do is change attitudes," Kahn told TIME Correspondent...