Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education" as its field of activity. Speeches, articles, and books by the faculty and administrative officers of the University have reiterated that Harvard intends to produce neither technicians nor carefully stamped wax educational dummies, but intelligent, useful citizens--men, in other words, who have the broad background and mental vigor to be able to understand and evaluate the issues facing the Free Society in the twentieth century...
...Chapel Choir sing it. Composer Harris had cluttered up the program with his usual pious phrases about American music ("All the materials have been extracted from prototypes of American folk songs"). Some of the new Mass sounded more like monkish Plainsong. But there was plenty of power, freshness and vigor, and surprisingly little of Harris' usual repetitiousness...
...Federal Council of Churches presented to President Truman a seven-point program for "averting war without yielding sound democratic principles." Highlights: no complacency, hysteria or fatalism about war; economic, social and moral programs to combat Communism, rather than military strategy; renewed vigor of the churches in testifying to God's love and Christian fellowship...
...central characters of this meandering story about an adolescent love affair, mercurial Denis and marshmallow-sweet Lise, are difficult to take seriously as human beings. But Lemelin writes with vigor and energy, he is rooted in the life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...
Uncomfortable Man. Taft himself, stumping the state with the vigor of a Crusader, spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...