Word: vigor
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...next eight years, portrait painting absorbed most of Porter's energies. Attacking portraiture with his customary canny vigor, Porter tried to speed up the normally tedious process and devised a simply constructed portable camera obscura. By projecting the subject's facial outline onto paper, Porter could, in 15 minutes, trace a likeness, fill in the features, and collect...
Counting Images. Psychologist Winter and his student Donley reached their conclusions by counting the incidence, in inaugural texts, of images suggestive of power and achievement. Weight is given to both the vigor and clarity with which the presidential need shines through. Examples...
Carl Jung, who lived with great vigor until the age of 85, saw aging as a process of continuous inward development ("individuation"), with important psychic changes occurring right up to the time of death. "Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended, stiff and rigid in mid-air," Jung wrote. "That is why so many people get wooden in old age; they look back and cling to the past with a secret fear of death in their hearts. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life...
...over 75 in the U.S. is increasing at two and a half times the rate of the general population. If the average life-span is significantly further increased, the population would indeed become aged, a trend which would be accelerated by a drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit of mankind...
...close down every major university in Turkey this past spring. So far this year, 14 students have died in violent demonstrations. "If the corrupt university leadership is not replaced by next term," says one student leader, "there will be more blood spilled. We are not fooling." Despite the increased vigor of the left, the Communists are not one of Demirel's problems, either as an outside threat or as a substantial internal influence on the radicals. The government itself is solidly pro-Western...