A more realistic look at Philadelphia, however, shows it to be a very modern and vigorous city, arising in gracious counterpoint to the deep serenity of an older city that has provided gentle but firm intellectual, economic, and humanitarian direction to the nation at whose birth it played midwife.
She has created for them an idiom that combines a certain archaism with vigorous modern English.
Educated at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, Anderson settled in Montreal as a teacher and professor at McGill University from 1940 to 1950, when Canadian writing was emerging as a vigorous modern literature.
The modern theme of vigorous urban transformation has been left behind by contemporary procedures linked to interstice methods and regenerative re-use.
The RSC round off their "World Elsewhere" season now with Roxana Silbert's astringent and vigorous modern-dress revival of Brecht's Galileo.
A vigorous modernization program was carried out in the 1920s and '30s, during which wide streets were built, modern sewers introduced, arcades constructed for sidewalk shops, and numerous parks created.
It turns out that the choice, that year, had come down to Lewis and Dreiser, and the three-man committee went for Lewis, two to one, because he embodied "a vigorous trend in modern literature — high-class American humor".
America experienced just such a prolonged moment during our own Civil War, when not only armies but also civilians were slaughtered in horrifying numbers because of a long-brewing clash between a dying, slavery-based agrarian society and a vigorous, newly industrial modern state.
But modern life consists of a vigorous competition for allegiances: countries, corporations, religions and their backers all directly and fervently seek to subsidize and otherwise advance interest in particular areas of the world and increase understanding of different perspectives.
"It stimulates vigorous new growth".
