Word: robustness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...noise of destruction adds to its satisfaction," Elias Canetti notes in Crowds and Power. "The banging of windows and smashing of glass are the robust sounds of fresh life, the cries of something newborn." In Detroit, they proved to be-with the rattling of gunfire-the sounds of death. Throughout the Detroit riot there was-as in Newark-a spectacularly perverse mood of gaiety and light-hearted abandon in the mob-a "carnival spirit," as a shocked Mayor Cavanagh called it, echoing the words used by New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes after he toured stricken Newark three weeks...
That the Traveler, an afternoon paper published by the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, was not robust or highly profitable was common knowledge in Boston and its death was accepted as inevitable. But no one, not even high-ranking staffers or the usually knowledgeable labor unions, expected the Traveler to go when it did or in the quiet way it did. Most newspeople anticipated that the Traveler's death would be the result of a deal made by the publishers of all the Boston dailies, a deal that would also mean the end of some of the others papers; or that...
...time," because he "struggles with sex, submits to violence, and is tormented by the metaphysical anxiety of death." The thesis might be more persuasive if Bomarzo were a less odd and cringing figure, and if the unremitting bleakness of his psychological life were set off against a more robust outward existence. But there can be no doubt that Ginastera has powerfully achieved his effects, combining orchestral wizardry and forceful vocal writing to carve out the contours of jarringly dramatic emotion. As Washington Opera Society President Hobart Spalding says, "The fellow is made to write operas...
...raise a quick $30 million in cash, A.M.C. sold its healthy Redisco, Inc. subsidiary to Chrysler Corp. A credit operation, which does a $250 million annual business financing sales of furniture, TV sets and other items, Redisco had earned a robust $2,500,000 a year. A.M.C.'s appliance-making Kelvinator division is also profitable-and for sale. Drastic as such surgery is, Chapin and Co. see little alternative to sacrificing A.M.C.'s two strong, non-automaking arms...
...exposed to a fall frost. Although he knew that the centers of the vegetables had frozen, he was unwilling to lose a week-end take that might have amounted to $200. But, the next morning, when he tried to bluff his way past the officials, one kick by a robust inspector sent the frozen tomatoes pounding down the street like red rubber balls...