Word: vigour
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...only weedy looking patches, worn at the edges by overworked students cutting corners to get to section on time. Those corners, and the dirt in between them, are not the symbol of power and beauty they could be. Think of the symbolism exuding from thriving, refulgent green spaces: vigour, growth, abundance, fertility! The image projected currently around the abodes of the new students is of life taking root only with trouble, of impeded growth on barren soil. Hardly encouraging for an impressionable class of first-years...
...Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, then President James Bryant Conant '13, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Tercentenary historian Samuel Eliot Morison addresesed the gathered crowd. Each encouraged the listeners in Tercentenary Theater to rejoice in the vigour and perseverence that had brought Harvard to its 300th birthday and to apply that same optimistic determination to the solution of contemporary ills in society...
Originally written for a repertory company, the Group Theater, the play showcases fully seven principal characters, all crucial to its tightly woven underlying themes. With professional case and engaging vigour, the accomplished cast brings life to every member of this large group of stock figures with their funny and sad cliche-laden speech. Taking the role of the ineffectual old radical whose one positive act is a negative sacrifice, Morris Carnovsky strikes just the perfect understated note of pathos as Jacob, the part he played almost forty years ago in the original Group Theater production. As the domineering Jewish mother...
Laissez-Faire Marriage. William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, was born to aristocratic ease. He belonged to the great Whig dynasty, whose members "took on the task of directing England's destinies with the same self-confident vigour that they drank and diced." Lamb was never certain who his father was because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick...
...that the quest for dignity has had to take the form of a militant march indicates how dangerous can be drowsy and complacent inertness in decades demanding fresh social attitudes. The reality of Black Islam also attests to the fact that traditional reform agencies are invested with neither the vigour nor the spiritual force demanded by contemporary black folk. To put it quite bluntly, Negroes want a revolution in racial relations, which traditional agencies are not supplying. However, the bast majority of American Negroes, bent as they are on social elevation, know themselves to be American first and Negro...