Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman on paper!" For in the last analysis, one cannot imagine the peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort will be spared to convert her into a mere culture heroine. In the gap between her death and this banal transfiguration, one can at least look at her paintings...
Last week's unrest began in church. Sunday's evening Mass at the old Cathedral of Cap Haitien had just concluded when a lone voice in the congregation bellowed out, "Abas (Down with) Duvalier!" With startling vigor, the cry was taken up by other worshipers, and the chanting demand for Duvalier's ouster quickly became the catalyst for a short-lived demonstration on the steps of the church...
...this junk," he mutters. "There must be something where I can do all of this stuff at once..." His voice trails off and he quickly writes a new option, "desert war in Libya." He scribbles, "PSYCHE" across his notepad and returns to studying and life with renewed vigor...
...Graves' vigor and longevity made a shambles of all convenient categories, just as his flamboyant personality came to seem almost mythic. His favorite form of conversation was the extended monologue. Savagely contemptuous when crossed, he could be surprisingly meek and gentle with friends. He also worked tirelessly. "Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills. They were often considerable. Graves married twice and had eight children. He also spent more than a decade, between wives, with the American poet Laura Riding...
...SAME TIME, though, another major factor in the quality of house life is the vigor of the committee in pursuing less expensive activities...