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Only a few years ago, it pulsed with a kind of frontier vigor...
Douglas looked thin and frail; his left arm hung useless. The old vigor was not there: his eyes at times seemed glassy, fixed in another realm; his voice was thin, almost inaudible, and he occasionally stuttered. Asked if he had left Walter Reed without his doctors' permission, the Justice sat silent. (Douglas had obtained an overnight pass, then refused to check back into the hospital...
Texas lacks much use for intellectual concerns, but it is not so much anti-intellectual s simply unintellectual. Its driving ambition and vigorous energy, channelled into business and agriculture, do not clash with intellectual preoccupations, but instead diverge from them. McMurtry laments that condition, but retains a grudging admiration for the state's "freshness, vigor, openness, undepleted energy, and - most importantly--undepleted possibility...
...wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
Theodore Roosevelt, renowned for his vigor, sometimes used to finish his presidential work by noon and go off romping with the kids in the afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...