Word: vigorousness
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...double bind. The clientele who are supposed to want to live in DeWolfe this fall (seniors) probably don't want it in sufficient numbers. The sophomores who probably want it aren't supposed to--they're supposed to want to be integrated into the houses and preserve the vigor of house life. (How the administrative ideal of a house with 30 to 50 absent seniors is supposed to be vigorous is left unsaid...
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...