Word: vigorousness
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From this rather glum moral, the 1978 Nobel laureate spins a lively, hectic tale. Singer's language, as translated from the Yiddish by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz, retains its astonishing speed and vigor, an economy of storytelling technique scarcely matched in this century. The year is 1906, and Max Barabander, saddened by the death of his adolescent son and the consequent coldness of his wife Rochelle, leaves Buenos Aires, where he has made a good living selling "houses and lots," to return to his native Poland "to perpetrate," he says, "he knew not what...
...Iraqis! Yes, you triumphed when you stood with all this vigor against the armies of 30 states! You triumphed while emphasizing your ability to face the showdown and confrontation! You have recorded for Arabs and Muslims bright pages of glory that will be remembered for generations...
...that the Black officers and the non-Cambridge natives, and you have a disjointed group of officers who don't trust each other," Cyr says. "Right now we need someone to breathe life, vigor and camaraderie into the department so that we have a shared vision. An outsider will be the most capable to handle such internal problems simply because he will be fresh and without favortism...
...closer relations with Washington, so his departure creates doubts about the role the U.S. will now play in Moscow's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. Gorbachev has issued assurances that Soviet foreign policy will not change, but without Shevardnadze it will have to -- if only in pace and vigor -- as a new minister learns the ropes...
Your story of December 10 on leading candidates for the presidency of Harvard fails to grasp the remarkable achievements of James Freedman at Dartmouth College. Quite simply, during his short term of office he has reaffirmed that institution's intellectual vigor and its faith in itself after 10 years of consistently vituperative battering at the hands of the Dartmouth Review...