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Repetitions of the tests showed that deVries' subjects averaged a 4.9% drop in body fat, a 6% reduction in diastolic blood pressure, a 9.2% rise in maximum oxygen consumption (the best single index of vigor, according to deVries), and a 7.2% increase in the strength of their 'arms. Perhaps more important, if more debatable, was deVries' conclusion from measuring the electrical activity of muscles. He equates these pulses with nervous tension and says that his exercisers cut tension...
...critic of Nazism mellowed into an enigmatic neutral during the cold war. In 1945, he defended the return of political freedom to the German people, who, he said, had been Hitler's first victims. He consistently refused to condemn the aggressions of Russia with anything like the same vigor with which he had challenged Hitler. Unlike Nazism, Barth argued, Communism was a totally materialistic philosophy whose frank atheism represented no threat to the internal authenticity of the church. He thus refused to protest the Communist invasion of Hungary-although when a friend visited him in the hos pital last...
...Goldsmith dipped enthusiastically into the grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement, but so little vigor--rather like a spastic with anemia...
With this assurance, Fortas goes on to describe the role of the Court as that of "striking the balance between the state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...have pledged myself to create an Open Presidency, which will inject flexibility, responsiveness, and vigor into our governmental institutions. To achieve the goal of a truly responsive Executive Branch, several steps will have to be taken...