Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once back at Harvard, Brown says he and Khazei began to pursue the idea of a national service program with more vigor. They began meeting weekly with a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who would go on to serve as mentor for many years...
...trail. Other Kennedys have the Mount Rushmore jaw and viscous hair, but Patrick's puffy, soft features aren't primed for statuemaking. Growing up in Virginia denied him the trademark Massachusetts accent, and asthma in childhood kept him from the scrimmage line in those famous tests of the family vigor. He likes to joke that when he shows up for an event billed with the family name, he introduces himself and people ask, "Where's the Kennedy?" But the third youngest member of Congress is starting to become known for more than his shortcomings. He has surprised many...
...dividing the labor of carrying on their father's legacy: Caroline taking the library, John the Kennedy School. But as close as they were, they were also very different. If John was an Adonis, she was pretty in that Irish way, all teeth and wavy hair and good healthy vigor. They both worried about how to have a meaningful life in a fishbowl, but John would lead a life that required he bat away the paparazzi while Caroline would have a life in which she could walk her children to school and answer her own phone. She would even intellectualize...
...strange to once again have time, to tackle my work in earnest, not just praying to finish, but wanting to learn. I was interested--thrilled, really--with my second semester classes. I was only taken aback when I remembered that the cost of this renewed academic vigor was that hellish first semester...
DIED. OLIVER REED, 61, hard-drinking British actor; after falling ill in a bar; in Valetta, Malta. Best known for his early roles in Women in Love, Oliver! and The Three Musketeers, Reed cultivated with great vigor a bad-guy image offscreen, referring to himself as a "tawdry character who explodes now and again...