"Traditional" as some may find him, Solzhenitsyn can pose appalling problems for the translator, with his highly condensed, elliptical syntax, his urge to counter the legacy of anaemic Soviet-speak with vigorous examples of regional and obsolescent vocabulary, and his blurring of narrators' and characters' voices, exploiting a linguistic flexibility which English lacks.
To his credit, he is presently offering vigorous examples of the relationship between jazz, Latin music, and Third World cultures in general, as in the Afro-Brazilian and Spanish nights this year.
For Connolly, by contrast, St Cyprian's was "a well run and vigorous example [of an English prep school] which did me a world of good".
The vigorous examples here, a still-life and a dancing figure titled "Zeus," are strongly colored and vigorously painted -- the sort of paintings that could inspire boldness in a group of painters forging a style.
The Art Journal was later to describe it as "unquestionably a vigorous and spirited example of the bravura class of sculpture".
Their Turkish counterparts offer a mostly hopeful example of vigorous democracy, free media and economic liberalisation, even if the Turkish prime minister has sometimes betrayed an unpleasantly authoritarian streak.Risky and messyNone of this will be easy for outsiders.
Ronald Reagan's firing of the striking air-traffic controllers in 1981 was only the most public example of a vigorous anti-union backlash that continues to the present day.
Vigorous and colorful examples of Mexican Modernist painting, including major works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, are on display through Sept. 8 at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan.
And yet the exteriors of the two museums, the Unitarian church, the police station and other architectural commissions are among the most vigorous, even violent examples of color contrasts ever presented in the city, a peppermint-stick explosion.
