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...President, but especially against one who campaigned on the theme that he would get the nation "moving again." It is embarrassing to President Kennedy today to have his performance measured against that often reiterated campaign promise, and it might be highly embarrassing in 1964. That consideration helps explain the vigor of the President's attack on Ike. It would be safer to be measured in 1964 not against 1960 promises but against the performance of the Eisenhower Administration-that is. if Kennedy himself is doing the comparing...
...Vigor & Recklessness." But Honest to God was approved by the evangelical Church of England Newspaper, which argued that "a reading of Robinson's book should be accompanied by a recollection of the conspicuous failure of the Church of England as a whole to make Christianity meaningful to this generation," and deplored the "preoccupied, weary effort to keep the old machinery going." The Rev. Peter Hollis of Birmingham gave Robinson some rank-and-file support: "I have often wondered how long we could continue to present the Gospel in traditional categories with any real effect...
Zeffirelli is the sort of director who needs a director. He likes to rough up a finished work of art so that it resembles a raw slice of life. In his much overpraised staging of the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, he injected brawling Renaissance vigor at the cost of turning a poetic tragedy into a documentary on 15th century juvenile delinquents. He tries to press The Lady of the Camellias between the pages of the Kinsey report, but the Dumas romance is too wilted for even hothouse sociology...
Tribute to Vigor. In many ways, the short, happy life of new products is a tribute to the vigor of free competition, but it inevitably means a harder life for companies. Big companies often suffer a profit cut or even a loss on a new product that is quickly copied or improved upon, and even the copiers frequently cannot recover the expense of tooling and production before the product succumbs to newer, better or flashier things. The race to get to the consumer first has forced companies to shorten their product development time, and in some cases has actually made...
Down in the Diary. Yet, seven weeks before the 1952 election, Hughes became a speechwriter for Republican Eisenhower. Why, believing as he did, did he take the job? Hughes's reason is circuitous: "I believed the essential vigor of the nation's two-party system to stand in clear and present danger . . . In 1952, for the life of the two-party system, it was 'time for a change.' But I thought this change essential-paradoxically-less by reason of the faults so loudly imputed to Democrats, too long in power, than by reason of the political...