Word: vigor
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...platform has won him the active support of several leading white businessmen. Last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had endorsed Locher in his three previous campaigns, came out for Stokes in a front-page editorial. "This personable young man," said the city's only morning paper, "has vigor and imagination. He has the courage to try new solutions to the urban problems that are plaguing Cleveland and other cities...
...Touch of Genius. The names of the ships that Salmon sought to immortalize are mostly forgotten, but his views of the waterfront retain their honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone...
...such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor...
...failed because they lacked the skill of political synthesis. In conquered territory, Arab rulers hewed to the Koran and tended to let the conquered govern themselves. Mohammed designated no successor (caliph); his squabbling heirs split Islam into rival sects. For a time, independent Moslem states retained Mohammed's vigor. While Europe slept, great Arab universities flourished in Cordova, Baghdad and Cairo; in Spain, the Arab philosopher Averroes revitalized Aristotle. After the death of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 809, the Baghdad caliphate plunged into civil war; in succeeding centuries, marauding Mongols poured into the Arab lands, killing people...
...Many who had settled it were now abandoning it. Morale among much of the populace was low. For a 19-year-old, Israel suddenly seemed listless, tired and dispirited. The crisis changed all that: suddenly the dream was very much alive again. The Jewish people once more reacted with vigor to the problem that has always faced it: the struggle for survival...