Word: vigorousness
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...seems odd to emphasize personal jockeying, it won't after you've read the book. For only the personalities emerge from it with some clarity and vigor. You may not find much important about The Virgin and the Gypsy and Five Easy Pieces from Penelope Gilliatt's and Jacob Brackman's respective reviews in the New Yorker and Esquire, but you will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility...
Last week the long rally gained new vigor. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average spurted above the psychologically important 900 mark for the first time in three months. Volume in one session surged to 21.4 million shares, lifting a wide range of stocks, from blue-chip stalwarts to long-depressed aerospace issues like United Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas. At week's end less hectic trading had pushed the Dow Jones to 910, a gain of 112 points from last November...
...Moment. Baroody is a mass of conflicting nationalities and interests. His family is half-Christian and half-Moslem; though he represents the most orthodox Moslem country in the world, he is a Christian. He can deliver anti-Western diatribes with as much vigor and vitriol as a 1950s Pravda editorial, yet he has an American wife and his four children received U.S. educations. A product of the American University in Beirut, Baroody has been a friend of King Feisal since their youth. He supervised the education abroad of the King's seven sons, and is reputedly adviser...
...Missing Vigor. Readers of the Ken Kesey novel from which John Gay's diffuse screenplay is derived will miss Kesey's vigor and his bigger-than-life characterizations. The book roared, the film sputters. But the actors do it more than justice. Sarrazin, whose past performances have been consistent only in their boredom, is at ease and quite effective as a maverick Stamper home from the big city. Jaeckel is perfect as an inveterate joker who takes only his fundamentalist religion seriously, and Newman is better than he has been in years as the favorite son who idolizes...
...lead to a walkout of the labor members from the Pay Board and a new wave of strikes. Businessmen and Government officials fear that that would do more than almost anything else imaginable to wreck the anti-inflation program and damage an economy that is not yet showing much vigor (see following story...