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That sober view of the limitations of power and authority is far removed from Kennedy's campaign oratory, which often seemed to suggest that any problem could be solved if only enough vim and vigor were brought to bear on it. Kennedy promised a "New Frontier" to "get America moving again." He soon found that it was tough enough just to keep the old problems from getting out of hand...
...Image. Slight and temporary though it may have been, the relaxation that Kennedy won in the tensions about Berlin gave him a chance to perfect and polish his image as a U.S. political leader. Part of that image was, and is, the youth, vigor and attractiveness of the Kennedy family. Few diplomats have scored more triumphs than Jacqueline Kennedy in her year as the nation's First Lady. She has charmed Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, Germany's Adenauer and, for that matter, Khrushchev himself (said Khrushchev of Jackie's gown...
...monasticism," says St. Anselm's Abbot Boultwood. "is precisely the seeking of this point of balance that unifies the contemplative and the active in monastic life. In reinforcing the element of contemplation . . . American monasticism may have a long way to travel yet, but it has the heart and vigor for the journey...
During the last seventy years Russell's thinking has formed an indelible imprint on his times. He grew up in the Cambridge of Whitehead, Moore, Broad, Wittgenstein, Eddington, Rutherford, and Keynes, and he has always seemed a product of the intellectual vigor of Cambridge undergraduate life at the turn of the century. Those were the days before an English University education had become part of the professional class's struggle for existence, and for Whitehead and Russell, Cambridge conformed almost exactly to the Platonic ideal of education; they divided their time between mathematics and free discussion with their friends...
...take your clothes off. Absolutely not!" A man in a gaudy African headdress wheels on an outsize baby stroller containing an intricately entwined couple and shouts: "Doctor! Doctor! Two of my villagers are stuck together!" The critics were not amused ("nightmarish frenzy"; "vast perversity"), but the vigor of their responses suggests that 29-year-old Playwright Gelber has touched some exposed nerve ends of the contemporary scene as he did in his first play about dope addicts, The Connection. Gelber likes to break the neck off the bottle of experience and jab the audience with the jagged edges, including several...