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...Like Being Reborn." Last month Betty Vanella celebrated her 37th birthday at home in San Jose, Calif. She was a robust 104 Ibs. and announced that she was going to take up golf and swimming. Her lips and fingernail beds were a healthy pink, thanks to a full supply of oxygenated blood. "It's like being reborn," she said...
...FRANCE. The gross national product grew by a robust 5.5% last year, and is expected to do as well in 1967. But a few clouds are gathering. Though exports rose fast (10%) last year, imports increased even faster (15%). And with markets weakened in other European countries, France stands to see its balance-of-payments surplus turn into a deficit before 1967 is out. Continued prosperity depends on France's ability to hold the line on prices...
Dudley, Fitts says in his introduction that his first note on Tate's manuscript was "a robust amused declarative style." This is a reasonable first impression. Tate has created graceful balances with the potentially disastrous load of fact his senses yield him; and he has done it largely by virtue of his metaphorical muscle. His rhythms and his syntax tend to confirm the analogies he suggests, Thus, in "Pastoral Scene...
...merely rant and rage: they insinuated, they needled, they enticed. Both marvelous singer-actors, they bent and shaded their voices in a seemingly infinite variety of veiled sneers, smiling threats and choked curses. In duets, Ludwig's vibrant, richly textured mezzo-soprano enfolded Berry's robust, securely focused baritone like velvet over steel. A blend of poetry and power, their singing was eloquent proof that strife can be beautiful...
...long bicycle rides along the Luga highway with his beloved father, "mighty-calved, knickerbockered, tweed-coated, checker-capped," holidays in European seaside resorts and spas-all of it heightened now by the awareness of irretrievable loss. "A sense of security, of wellbeing, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present." It is of no importance that Russian imperialism underwrote that way of life. Nabokov is concerned only with preserving "the beauty of intangible property, unreal estate"-and he transports the reader with a series of unforgettable images that have nothing to do with...