Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knight Commander, the Man of the Half-Century -the incomparable Winston Churchill-so this is a proud order. It is a great privilege for me to bring congratulations to Harry Luce and to his associates on this 4Oth occasion of the birth of TIME. An idea has become a vital and throbbing institution, with a special relationship to its readers. TIME has always informed them. It has on occasion inspired them. It has frequently amused them. It has sometimes irritated and angered them. But it has never bored them. It set out 40 years ago to talk about what...
...they have much beyond mockery that is their own: enough original sensitivity and so abundant a measure of spontaneity that it almost begins not to matter that the method is imprecise or the execution slapdash. There is gimmickry in the world, says Man Ray, and it takes a thousand vital shapes. At 72, he holds to his course, which is to record the puns and anagrams of everyday life...
...does so only at peril of missing a most valuable set of lessons. The trinitarianism of James offers real hope for re-weaving the tangled threads of Western culture into a coherent fabric. And the emphasis on pure experience assures one that such a fabric would remain bright unfaded, vital. It is these two aspects of the thought of James that demand our closest attention. And it is these two aspects that compel us to recognize him as Harvard's greatest intellectual...
Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand...
...wave flows over us and at the heart-swelling and the lachrymal effusion that unexpectedly catch us at intervals. . . . If we abruptly see dark moving form in the woods, our heart stops beating, and we catch our breath instantly and before any particular idea of danger can arise." The vital point of the whole theory James stated thus: "If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no 'mind-stuff' out of which the emotion can be constituted...