Word: vigorously
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MORE THAN INJECTING a new vigor into our confusing and underrated era. Williamson seeks to infuse the language we speak with new beauty. He will crash through a line with many poly syllabics--exciting combinations of consonants and internal rhyming--and then suddenly hit a resounding, one-syllabic word with a long vowel. Such techniques allow him to reemphasize the language of poetry, as distinct from prose, without seeming artificial. The elegance of Williamson's tone lends him the dramatic, questioning role of the nineteenth-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in "Leaving for Islands...
...bankers' blitz is stirring a backlash. Senator Bob Dole, a central target of the lobbying effort for his role in the passage of the tax bill, has turned on his tormentors with particular vigor. At a meeting of the A.B. A. last month, he accused it of waging an "unscrupulous" campaign with lobbying tactics that had reached "a historic low." Both Dole and Regan have publicly suggested that banks already pay less than their fair share of taxes. A congressional report last year said that in 1981, commercial banks paid only 2.3% of their profits in federal Income taxes...
...giant U.S. auto industry, whose sales are critical to any sustained economic recovery, is showing unmistakable signs of renewed vigor. Prodded by sharply lower financing rates, sales of new cars have been on a quiet but steady rise since October. By last week Detroit's harried automakers could look back on sales increases for nine consecutive ten-day selling periods, the first time that has happened since...
...vigor of the black churches, there is still a role in Africa for traditional missionaries with skills and tact. One is Alfred Merriweather, 63, a physician sent in 1944 by the United Free Church of Scotland to run the Livingstone Mission at Molepolole, Botswana; the center is named for David Livingstone, the famed 19th century Scottish missionary and explorer. Merriweather has seen massive changes over four decades. "On reflection, we made many mistakes. When I joined the mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their...
Martins' influence on ballet in America has much to do with the ease and confidence of his style. He has set a flawless standard for partnering a ballerina. If the aggressive vigor of Edward Villella and Jacques d'Amboise made classical dance an attractive pursuit for men, Martins has taken that style and said, in effect, "Relax." He never inflates a movement, never accelerates into showy riffs of excess energy...