Word: vigor
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...life--can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility that is in every man and in the world." For him responsibility was the counter-part of freedom, both political and existential. "We must condemn what deserves condemnation; it should be done with vigor and then put aside. But what still deserves to be praised should be exalted at length...I have never been able to make up my mind to spit, as so many have done, on the world 'honor...
...Last week's performance was one of a series of four planned by Columbia Records to display Stravinsky's music. The old man led his forces - in addition to the pianos, four solo singers, a chorus and an assortment of percussion instruments -with a passion and vigor that left his audience breathless. Standing spiderlike on the podium, he raised clenched fists or clawed the air with splayed fingers, setting the hall alive with the violently percussive rhythms, the clipped vocal phrases, the primary colorations that once made his ritualistic evocation of a peasant wedding such a shocking piece...
Like a flyweight Samson, Billy sets everything tumbling with one incredible heave, then changes his mind and dashes about trying to catch the pieces. British Novelist Waterhouse agitates his farce with vigor as Billy makes up his mind to leave for London, tells off his parents, resigns his job and, in an apocalyptic mood, wastes an hour feeding what he supposes are aphrodisiac pills to one of his fiancees. After further complications, Billy becomes entwined with, if not actually engaged to a third girl...
...Test of Vigor. More and more research is needed. Although industry spent $10 billion on research this year, it will have to spend still more. "The company that stints on research these days," says General Telephone & Electronics President Don Mitchell, "will give some short-term gain to its profit-and-loss statement, but it won't have any profit statement to worry about by 1970." Mitchell knows from experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period...
...Haydn's superb La Passione, the symphony No.49 in F minor. Never for a moment lacking in inspiration, the symphony is a product of Haydn's thirties, a tempestuous, tragic utterance that ought to give new ideas about this composer to those unfamiliar with his early work. Played with vigor and affecting lyricism, it was the sort of performance Mr. Manusevitch can, and hopefully will give us in the spring concert, which includes a contemporary work and a Handel harp concerto. The Orchestra's shortcomings are primarily technical, and its purely musical potential is substantial indeed...