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...fell. At midweek a wave of selling struck the market just before noon, drove some stocks down as much as six points. Before that day's close, the market got back some of its losses, and it held steady to week's end. But its old, heady vigor seemed to be gone...
...month before his death in 1939, Irish Poet William Butler Yeats wrote to a friend: "And I do nothing but write verse." It was not the lyric verse that once sang: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"; now it had a marblelike quality, a classic vigor and clarity that most younger poets envied. A few months earlier, at 73, he had written his epitaph...
...either routine or intellectualized. For one thing, there are laws of libel which would hamstring any American critic . . . You can't say a particular person gives a perfunctory performance-period. You have to say he or she, in your opinion, didn't give it the necessary vigor and feeling, or in some other way get around a flat verdict on a matter which in Britain is taken as reflection on character...
...Truman and Generalissimo Stalin, he said, should meet in the nude to talk things over-in a cave, or a holy city like Benares. The conference, said Gir, should be held in an atmosphere of "I have nothing to hide from you." Added Gir: "If the gentlemen have the vigor to accompany me, I will gladly lead them to an excellent cave...
...Revolutionary France had been as deep as most 19th Century historians said it was, France's problem would not have arisen. The truth was that the Revolution was made against one of the most successful social structures the world ever saw, still near the height of its vigor at the moment it was attacked. Only the most powerful revolutionary drive could have breached that structure, only the massive vigor of the pre-Revolutionary French tradition could have survived that revolutionary thrust...