Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Test of Vigor. More and more research is needed. Although industry spent $10 billion on research this year, it will have to spend still more. "The company that stints on research these days," says General Telephone & Electronics President Don Mitchell, "will give some short-term gain to its profit-and-loss statement, but it won't have any profit statement to worry about by 1970." Mitchell knows from experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period...
...Haydn's superb La Passione, the symphony No.49 in F minor. Never for a moment lacking in inspiration, the symphony is a product of Haydn's thirties, a tempestuous, tragic utterance that ought to give new ideas about this composer to those unfamiliar with his early work. Played with vigor and affecting lyricism, it was the sort of performance Mr. Manusevitch can, and hopefully will give us in the spring concert, which includes a contemporary work and a Handel harp concerto. The Orchestra's shortcomings are primarily technical, and its purely musical potential is substantial indeed...
John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons...
...Reclining Female Nude, relates directly to his sculptural experimentation in primitive forms, but even here, lyricism, his greatest gift, predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment of the human form...
...which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools to find time somehow for putting meaning into words-with clarity, order, thought, vigor...