Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself and to his own generation, confessing his own failures or omissions or hopes, and interpreting the world in his own image. Peter Schrag, an official of Amherst College, has catalogued some of the inevitable themes, including the Simple Uplift Speech, which stresses the need for renewed moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities, along with the Inverted Uplift Speech, which stresses the lack of moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities. Then there is the Aching Anywhere Appeal ("Anywhere needs your help; the Anywhereians are starving; their country is in ferment; world leadership depends on saving Anywhere...
...ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire for a first-class Rembrandt, but also that even rarer creature: a man who pursues great paintings and additional companies with equal vigor, thereby establishing a collector's reputation in both business...
...Master Plan. Through his world of Van Goghs and vegetables, Simon, at 58, moves always with an "anything happen?" frenzy and a vigor that both irritates and impresses those around him. Even Aide Jack Clumeck says: "I cannot imagine spending seven days a week with this fellow. After a threeor four-day trip with him, I have to take a few days off. He is just that intense and probing." As a man of a reflective nature, however, Norton Simon knows that neither activity?nor acquisitiveness?are ends in themselves. "He is not interested in leaving a huge fortune," says...
Gergen explained that reading period the logical time for such rebellion be expressed, since the system is leaving students alone for a express purpose of attacking them renewed vigor after the interne...
...theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly and glorious old story with new vigor and delight...