Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Critic Lawrence Gilman of the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole of it is vital and dis- tinguished music, but the slow movements, the largo, is not only an exquisite piece of writing, but it is charged with a depth of feeling, a poetic beauty, a musing, tenderness...
...question of the Locarno agreement, which has been, since it was first drawn up last fall, one of vital importance and interest throughout the whole world, has come into particular prominence during the last week. On account of the crisis in the situation concerning Germany's entrance into the League of Nations Council, the security, which the Locarno pact promised to the nations of Western Europe, has been threatened...
...human being with tested tools and a certain proficiency with which he may better realize his ultimate potentialities in life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute. Life is becoming complicated to the point where tools and selective judgement are vital. The medieval whose basic creed denied legitimacy to the temporal things of this earthly life could well afford to regard his education as something apart: today, with different standards and different conditions to be met, such an attitude must inevitably mean suicide...
...hero is a dusty little clerk who, through the facile mood of fantasy, finds himself face to face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...
...lecturer knows that his pittance is like the poor, always with him. This does not keep all lecturers from playing to their audience. Indeed it makes some of them play too hard. But it does keep them from remembering that youth is a careless audience, that it cannot see vitality in matter unless the matter is presented in a vital form. And too often tradition alone keeps the mythical second balcony from booing...