Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music world. It has been just six months since Michael Tilson Thomas inherited the baton from the sober Swede Herbert Blomstedt, but already the San Francisco Symphony has undergone a transformation. Woodwinds dance merrily, the brass resonates nobly, and the strings speak as one; overall, performances crackle with newfound vigor...
...last seven months, the new coalition of socially conscious council members has brought a renewed energy and vigor to the council. In its first semester, the council passed 59 resolutions, the most in any of its previous 27 semesters, and most council members acknowledge that PUCC has played a significant role in this legislative spree...
Echergay blamed "bad keyboards" in the Science Center--where she reg- ularly worked--for her affliction, which "flared up again this [past] semester with renewed vigor...
Honoring the Roman god of fertility, Lupercalia celebrated the wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus, providing the luckier brother with the martial vigor to found a great city on the body of the unluckier brother. The holiday celebrated not only unrestrained sexuality but the martial spirit of Romulus' descendants in wild days of drinking, games and orgies. Greeting cards were not required...
...putting so many facets of his young boss into Kane--the inhuman vigor, the using of others, the sled he loved as a boy--Mank effectively wrote Welles' autobiography for him in screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since...