Word: vigorousness
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...would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism, if the present teeters between past vigor and future decadence, Americans right now are at their Mark Antony stage of development...
...While The Crimson also serves the Cambridge community, this tradition is unfortunately neither considered sacrosanct nor observed with vigor by all at 14 Plympton...
This year, though, the golden rule seems tarnished. It's not that there's anything new in movies, heaven knows; the studios are serving up action, romance and comedy with the usual bland vigor. But so far, not one of 1993's top 20 hits is a spin-off. If the trend continues, sequelmania could become sequelphobia, and movie folk might have to dream up new characters and stories. Even new titles, not just old numerals. Catastrophe...
Uniform requirements do nothing but foster discontent among students and lack of vigor in administration of the programs that are required. Regardless of the intrinsic value of a course, students cannot--and should not--be forced to take...
...very slow first act is saved by the fine quality of the acting. E.G. Marshall plays a cranky Jacob Brackish with vigor and sternness. His Brackish is complex enough that you're never quite sure whether he is difficult because he's malicious or just because he has high standards. Maryann Plunkett had the audience laughing at her "wicked cool" Massachusetts accent from the moment she walks onstage. She demonstrates great range as Kathleen Hogan, sometimes crumpled in tears on her bed, other times ironing fanatically or gleefully switching the radio station to rap music when Brackish's hearing...