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...most obvious links to the past were provided by such oldtimers as Karl Hofer, 74, dean of the German expressionists, still painting his slab-faced people. The abstractionists and surrealists showed more vigor and inventiveness, but nothing to compare with the explosive stuff of postwar France and Italy. Among the best of them: Old Surrealist (59) Edgar Ende's The Organ and Deserted Shop, both stark and enlivened by bold strokes of coral, cerise, blue...
...Brazil, the most striking things were the "vigor and vitality . . . One knows this, one looks at the map, one reads reports. But to fly over it all day long . . . this just boiling ahead with terrific energy . . . You can be utterly flumoxed...
Schumann: Dichterliebe: Wolf: Four Songs (Gérard Souzay; Jacqueline Bonneau, pianist; London). Souzay's melting baritone blends intimate crooning and masculine vigor in performances of firm conviction. Recording: mellow...
...would have been a great deal more dangerous and a great deal more costly except for the Administration's fear of The Tribune . . . We have [Harsch's] well-informed word for it that The Tribune is the only newspaper in the United States with the strength, the vigor, and the purpose always to serve the American cause at whatever the risk...
Germany itself was the index of the future. It would have nothing to gain from deserting a strong and united anti-Communist world. If might, however, be tempted to use its great vigor aggressively again, or to make another deal with the Reds if the Western alliance faltered...